Tectus triserialis

Tectus triserialis
Drawing of a shell of Tectus triserialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Tectus
Species: T. triserialis
Binomial name
Tectus triserialis
(Lamarck, 1822) [1]
SynonymsTectus (Tectus) triserialis (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Pyramis triserialis (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Tectus (tectus) triserialis (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Trochus acutus Reeve (non Trochus acutus Lamarck)
  • Trochus triserialis Lamarck, 1822 (original description)

Tectus triserialis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[2][3]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 60 mm. The imperforate, solid, heavy shell has a turreted-conic shape. It is flesh-colored, lighter beneath. It contains about 12 whorls, somewhat convex toward the lower, concave toward the upper part. The upper whorls show a single submedian series of rather prominent tubercles, the lower with about four subequal series of small, separated, rather acute tubercles, the surface between them minutely wrinkled. The base of the shell is nearly flat, and spirally lirate. The lirae become narrow toward the outer edge. The aperture is rhomboidal. The outer and parietal walls are more or less lirate within. The base has a deep seated spiral fold near the columella within . The columella is strongly, acutely folded, the fold directed downward.[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia and Northern Queensland, Australia

References

  1. ↑ Lamarck, J.B. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 pp. 711 pp.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2012). Tectus triserialis (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567235 on 2012-09-01
  3. ↑ Poppe G.T. (2004) Descriptions of spectacular new species from the Philippines (Gastropoda - Trochidae, Cypraeidae). Visaya 1(1): 4-19. (July 2004)
  4. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Trochus triserialis)
External identifiers for Tectus triserialis
WoRMS 567235
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