Turridrupa jubata, common name the crested pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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| shells of Turridrupa jubata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Turridrupa |
| Species: | T. jubata
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| Binomial name | |
| Turridrupa jubata (Reeve, 1843)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 33.7 mm.
The smooth shell is acuminately fusiform. It is yellowish brown, the anterior end is white. The whorls are many-keeled. The middle keel is the largest, with a beaded row of granules immediately over it (about 25 per whorl). The siphonal canal is rather short. [2]
The sinus apex is situated at the end of the mid-shoulder cord. The sinus cord is finely gemmate.
The whorls are covered with several keels, of which the middle one is the largest. They contain a beaded row of granules immediately over it. The shell is yellowish brown. [3]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea
References
edit- ^ a b Turridrupa jubata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Reeve LA. 1843–46. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. Conchologia Iconica, or Illustra-tions of the shells of molluscous animals. London: Reeve Brothers. Vol. 1: pls 1–18(1843), pl. 19 (1844), pls 20–33 (1845); pls 34– 40, index and errata (1846)
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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