Ptychobela griffithii
| Ptychobela griffithii | |
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| Shell of Ptychobela griffithii (holotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Ptychobela |
| Species: | P. griffithii |
| Binomial name | |
| Ptychobela griffithii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) | |
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Ptychobela griffithii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropodmollusk in the familyPseudomelatomidae, the turrids.[1]
- Subspecies
- Ptychobela griffithii gracilior(Von Martens, 1904)
Description
The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.
The small, solid shell has a fusiform shape. When the ribs and the smooth spiral lirae come together, they create axial nodes on the shoulder of each whorl. The depressed sutures lack a subsutural cord. The rather wide, slightly concave aperture measures about half the total length of the shell. The wide siphonal canal is moderately long. The outer lip is somewhat thickened. The ground color of the shell is brown with white axial nodes.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off Oman, in the Bay of Bengal and off Japan.
References
- ^ abPtychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^Marine Biodiversity Database of India: Ptychobela griffithii
- Subba Rao, NV (2003) Indian seashells Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI, Kolkata (Part 1) 416 pp Available at - NCL, Pune
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ptychobela griffithii.
- Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. (1833-1834). The Mollusca and Radiata. Vol. 12, In: E. Griffith, [1824−1835, The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, [...]. London: Whittaker and Co., viii + 601 pp., 61 pls. [1−138 (Date of publication according to Petit & Coan, 2008: pp 1–192, Mollusca pls. 1−39 - 1833; pp 193–601, pls. Zoophytes 2−20, Mollusca corrected pls. 28*, 36*, 37*, pls. 40-41 - 1834 ]
- Tucker, JK (2004). 「現生および化石のツチ類カタログ（軟体動物：腹足類）」(PDF) . Zootaxa . 682 : 1– 1295. doi : 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
- Gastropods.com: Ptychobela griffithii
- プチ＆コーアン「グリフィス＆ピジョン（1833-1834）版キュヴィエに掲載された軟体動物分類群、キュヴィエ版およびウッドのIndex testaceologicusに関する注釈付き」マラコロジア50(1) · 2008年6月
