Kingdom Animalia Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda Scientific name Turricula javana Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Superfamily Conoidea Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Turricula, Lophiotoma, Clavatulidae, Lophiotoma indica | ||
Turricula javana, common name the Java turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
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Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 70 mm. The whorls are angular and tuberculated in the middle. These tubercles develop from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, the tubercles lighter.
Distribution
This marine species has a wide distribution going from East Africa and Pakistan to Queensland, Australia and the South China Sea.
References
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