Purpuraturris cristata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
| Purpuraturris cristata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Purpuraturris |
| Species: | P. cristata
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| Binomial name | |
| Purpuraturris cristata (Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Turris cristata Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000 | |
Description edit
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off the Philippines and Western Australia.
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Purpuraturris cristata (Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609233 on 2022-11-18
- Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
- Vera-Pelaez, J. L., Vega-Luz, R. & Lozano-Francisco, M. C. (2000). Five new species of the genus Turris Roding, 1798 (Gastropoda; Turridae; Turrinae) of the Philippines and one new species of the southern Indo-Pacific. Malakos (Revista de la Asociacióon Malacolóogica Andaluza). Monografia 2, 1-29.
- Kilburn, R.N., Fedosov, A.E., Olivera, B.M. 2012. Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda:Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58
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