Cinguloterebra anilis
| Cinguloterebra anilis | |
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| shell of Cinguloterebra anilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Cinguloterebra |
| Species: | C. anilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cinguloterebra anilis (Röding, 1798) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cinguloterebra anilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 111 mm.
(Original description) The narrowly subulate shell is reddish brown. It contains 21 very flat whorls. These are sculptured with oblique, rather closely set transverse costae interrupted by spiral striae and two crenate sutural bands, the upper of which is much the broader. The sutures are scarcely impressed. The columella descendis in a curve, extending into a thick, projecting callus which joins the lip above. The peristome is sinuous and slightly reflexed. The aperture is narrowly ovate. The siphonal canal is short and recurved [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific.
References
- 1 2 Cinguloterebra anilis (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 September 2010.
- ↑ Preston, H. B. "Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands." Records of the Indian Museum 2.2 (1908): 187-210 (described as Terebra rubrobrunnea)
- Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp