Tritonoturris secta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Tritonoturris secta | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Tritonoturris |
Species: | T. secta
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Binomial name | |
Tritonoturris secta (Sowerby, G.B. II, 1870)
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Synonyms | |
Defrancia secta Sowerby, G.B. II, 1870 |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6.9 mm.
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the South China Sea.
References
edit- Sowerby G.B. 1870 - Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870: 249–259, pls 21–22
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
- Gastropods.com: Tritonoturris secta