Tropaeas subulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Tropaeas subulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Tropaeas |
| Species: | T. subulata
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| Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853)
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Description edit
The whitish, somewhat shining shell is smooth and pellucid. The length of the shell is 9.5 mm. Its apex is mucronate. The whorls of the teleoconch are plano-convex, strongly longitudinally costate, and with punctate interstices. The columella is uniplicate in the middle. The aperture is produced and subchanneled below. The shell is umbilicated.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and off Japan.
References edit
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2011). Tropaeas subulata (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588567 on 2012-01-12
- ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 310; 1886