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Turbonilla ceralva

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Pyramidellidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Pyramidelloidea

Subfamily
  
Turbonillinae

Turbonilla ceralva

Turbonilla ceralva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

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Description

The milk-white shell is small and slender. Its length measures 3.7 mm. The 1¾ helicoid whorls of the protoconch are depressed. Their axis is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns. They are not immersed. The seven whorls of the teleoconch are situated very high between the sutures. They are moderately rounded, very slightly shouldered at the summit, and somewhat contracted at the sutures. They are marked by slender, curved, rounded, decidedly retractive axial ribs, which are very feebly expressed on the first whorl, on all the rest excepting the penultimate, which has 40 ribs, there are 36. The intercostal spaces about as wide as the ribs. They are marked by seven equal and equally spaced spiral pits. The periphery and the base of the body whorl are well rounded, the latter marked by the continuations of the axial ribs and eight equally spaced series of spiral pits, of which those nearest the umbilicus are a little less strongly developed than the rest. The oval aperture is moderately large. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin, showing the external sculpture within. The columella is slender, decidedly curved, and somewhat twisted.

Distribution

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off La Paz, Baja California.

References

Turbonilla ceralva Wikipedia