Turrancilla williamsoni
| Turrancilla williamsoni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Ancillariidae |
| Genus: | Turrancilla |
| Species: | T. williamsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987[1]
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Turrancilla williamsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.[2]
Description
Original description: "Shell very slender and elongated, shiny and polished, with an elongated, protracted spire; fascicular band very small, restricted to anterior tip of shell; suture distinctly keeled; shell pale yellow-orange with darker orange enamel along shoulder and on spire whorls; fasciole darker orange; protoconch large, rounded, dome-like; interior of aperture pale orange; columella with 1 large twisted plication; operculum unknown."[3]
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Off Punto Fijo, Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuela."[4]
References
- ^ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF