Clade Heterobranchia Clade Panpulmonata Rank Species | Clade Euthyneura | |
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Similar Turbonilla, Parthenina, Odostomia, Brachystomia eulimoides, Ondina | ||
Turbonilla lactea 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 length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 8 mm. The shell consists of almost stright-sided whorls with deep, flat sutures. Its shell, marked with "thick, flat, slightly sinuous, oblique costae" that are "indistinct on the first whorl" and prominent thereafter, has a milky-white colour, on which the Turbonilla lactea species name is based.
Distribution
This species occurs in the following locations:
References
Turbonilla lactea Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA