Cheungbeia laterculata
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| authority = (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
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- Drillia laterculata Schepman 1913
- Inquisitor laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
- Inquisitor zonata (non Reeve, 1843): Chang and Wu 2000
- Pleurotoma laterculata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 (original combination)
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Cheungbeia laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and alliesMolluscaBase (2018). Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056323 on 2 June 2018
Description
The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.{{cn|date=June 2025}}
(Original description in Latin) The shell is fusiform, solid, and smooth. It is longitudinally ribbed and tessellated with red square spots. The spire is pyramidal. The whorls are angulate in the middle, with two keels present at the angle, and are tuberculated at the ribs. The aperture is subpyriform, and the inner lip is thickened externally and emarginate near the suture. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90543#page/317/mode/1up Sowerby II, G. B. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1870): 249–259] {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
This species appears in the China Seas, on the coastal areas of Vietnam, and from Southeast India to Queensland, Australia. Li, B.-Q., Kilburn, R. N., & Li, X.-Z. (2010). *Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas*. Journal of Natural History, 44(11–12), 699–740. Taxonomic treatment of Cheungbeia laterculata. Plazi TreatmentBank. Retrieved June 17, 2025, from https://treatment.plazi.org/id/181DC756FFE2FFB9FEC3FAFC8500C274/1
References
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- Schepman, M.M. 1913. Toxoglossa. pp. 384–396 in Weber, M. & de Beaufort, L.F. (eds). The Prosobranchia, Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia Tectibranchiata, Tribe Bullomorpha, of the Siboga Expedition. Monograph 49. Siboga Expeditie 32(2)
- [https://archive.org/details/revisionofaustri00hedl Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56] {{PD-notice}}
- Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699–740
External links
- {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf| journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 }}
- [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Species-of-subfamily-Crassispirinae-A-Funa-jeffreysii-Beibu-Gulf-CN-N177B-47-B_fig1_233368848 Image of Cheungbeia laterculata; Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. and Li, Xin Zheng(2010) 'Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966(Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas', Journal of Natural History, 44: 11, 699–740]
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