Turris venusta
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- Pleurotoma venusta Reeve, 1843
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Turris venusta, common name the comely pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Turris venusta (Reeve, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596580 on 2023-01-05
Description
The length of the shell varies between 49 mm and 109 mm.
(Original description) The shell has a stoutly fusiform shape. It is yellowish and spotted with dark brown. The whorls are rounded and transversely many-ribbed, obliquely spotted. The upper part is depressed, vividly painted with larger spots . The siphonal canal is long.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11119161 Reeve, L. A. (1843-1846). Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 1, pl. 1-40 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines.
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External links
- [https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3244.1.1 Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A.E. & Olivera B.M. (2012) Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58]
- [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1166495/ Biolib;cz : Turris venusta]
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