Turrisipho lachesis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colidae, the true whelks and the like.[1]

Turrisipho lachesis
= Drawing of a shell of Turrisipho lachesis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colidae
Genus: Turrisipho
Species:
T. lachesis
Binomial name
Turrisipho lachesis
(Mørch, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
  • Colus lachesis (Mørch, 1869)
  • Fusus lachesis Mørch, 1869
  • Fusus (Siphonorbis) lachesis Mörch, 186 (basionym)
  • Neptunea lachesis (Mörch, 1869)
  • Sipho (Tritonofusus) costiferus Posselt & A. S. Jensen, 1898
  • Sipho costiferus Posselt, 1898
  • Sipho undulatus Friele, 1881
  • Turrisipho undulatus (Friele in Tryon, 1881) ·

Description

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The length of the shell attains 44.1 mm. The shell is pinkish white under a coriaceous epidermis. [2]

Distribution

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Range: 74°N to 46.08°N; 78°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands ; also off Norway and the Barents Sea

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