Tritonoranella latitudo is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
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| Shell of Tritonoranella latitudo (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Bursidae |
| Genus: | Tritonoranella |
| Species: | T. latitudo
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| Binomial name | |
| Tritonoranella latitudo Garrard, 1961
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 75 mm and 95 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, in the East China Sea and off South Queensland, Australia and the Philippines
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Tritonoranella latitudo (Garrard, 1961). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1472450 on 2023-07-20
- Garrard, T. A. (1961). Mollusca collected by M. V. Challenge off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 1(5): 3-38, 2 pls.
- Beu, A. 1981. Australian gastropods of the family Bursidae. Part 1. The families of Tonnacea, the genera of Bursidae, and revision of species previously assigned to Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881. Rec. Aust. Mus 33: 248–324.
- Beu, A.G. 1987. Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Pt 2. Descriptions of 14 new Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies, with revisions of related taxa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 273-355
- Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256
- Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120
- Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
External links edit
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- Sanders M.T., Merle D., Laurin M., Bonillo C. & Puillandre N. (2021 [nomenclatural availability: 2020]). Raising names from the dead: a time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156: 107040: 1-12
- "Bursa (Colubrellina) latitudo latitudo". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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