Turris pagasa

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Turris pagasa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1][2]

Turris pagasa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turridae
Genus: Turris
Species:
T. pagasa
Binomial name
Turris pagasa
Olivera, 1999
Synonyms[1]

Turris kilburni Vera-Pelaez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000 (declared junior synonym of T. pagasa by First Reviser's choice by Kilburn et al. (2012))

Description

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The length of the shell attains 62 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

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  • 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