Turrancilla williamsoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Ancillariidae
Genus: Turrancilla
Species:
T. williamsoni
Binomial name
Turrancilla williamsoni
Petuch, 1987[1]

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

  1. 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.
  2. Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF
  4. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF


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