Turrancilla williamsoni

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| authority = Petuch, 1987{{WRMS source|137372|Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.|28 April 2010}}

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Turrancilla williamsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ancillariidae.{{WRMS species|448176|Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987||28 April 2010}}

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."Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Punto Fijo, Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuela."Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF

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Category:Ancillariidae

Category:Gastropods described in 1987

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