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Chlorostoma Argyrostomum
''Chlorostoma'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Chlorostoma Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413474 on 2013-12-10 Description The solid, conical shell is umbilicate or imperforate. The spire is elevated or depressed. The oblique aperture is subrhomboidal. The outer lip is smooth within. The arcuate columella is above continued in a callus over or halfway around the umbilicus, which when open shows one or more spiral ribs inside. The base of the columella shows two or more denticles. Species Species within the genus ''Chlorostoma'' include: * '' Chlorostoma argyrostomum'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Chlorostoma lischkei'' (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874) * '' Chlorostoma xanthostigma'' A. Adams, 1853 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Chlorostoma achates'' Gould, 1861: synonym of ''Tegula pfeifferi'' (Philiippi, 1846) * ''Chlorostoma ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chlorostoma Xanthostigma
''Tegula xanthostigma'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tegula xanthostigma (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1471433 on 2022-04-24 accessed 23 May 2010. Description The size of the shell attains 35 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Korea, Taiwan and Japan. References External links Adams, A. (1853). Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gasteropodous Mollusca. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851) 19: 150-192Dunker, W. (1860). Neue japanische Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter. 6: 221-240* xanthostigma ''Xanthostigma'' is a genus of snakeflies belonging to the family Raphidiidae ''Raphidiidae'' is a family of snakeflies in the order Raphidioptera. Genera Raphidiidae are divided in 28 genera with about 210 species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Snodgrassi
''Tegula snodgrassi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula snodgrassi'' (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialist ... at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575638 on 2012-09-01Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp. Distribution This marine species was found in the Pacific Ocean off the Albemarle Island, Galapagos Islands. References External links To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca CollectionTo World Register of Marine Species* snodgrassi Gastropods described in 1902 {{Trochoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Patagonica
''Tegula patagonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Tegula patagonica'' (d'Orbigny, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533470 on 2012-09-01 Description The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 21 mm. The thick, umbilicate shell has an orbiculate-conical shape. It is transversely narrowly granulose-sulcate. It has a uniform brownish or purplish color. The spire is conic. The apex is obtuse. The five whorls are subcarinate with sutures excavated. The aperture is rounded. The columella is bidentate. Distribution This marine species occurs from Southern Brazil to Southern Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Montereyi
''Tegula montereyi'', common name the "Monterey tegula", is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Tegula montereyi (Kiener, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534193 on 2013-12-10 This is an Eastern Pacific Ocean species which was previously known as ''Chlorostoma montereyi''. The specific epithet refers to Monterey, California. Description The height of the shell varies between 28–39 mm, its diameter between 34–42 mm. The rather thin, umbilicate shell has a strictly conical shape. It is light olivaceous or pale corneous. The spire is conical, with nearly straight outlines. The apex is acute. The sutures are linear. The seven whorls are flattened, encircled by numerous fine lirae, which become obsolete on the lower whorl, which shows usually very ill-defined obliquely descending small folds, at right angles to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Melaleucos
''Tegula melaleucos'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula melaleucos''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575633 on 2012-09-01 Description The size of the shell varies between 16 mm and 31 mm. The rather solid shell has a conical shape. The apex is obtuse. The shell is profoundly umbilicated. Its color is white, ornamented with oblique black flammules. The six whorls show a coronal series of tubercles. They are carinated with a nodulose carina. They are channelled below the carina, and spirally bistriate. The body whorl is bicarinate. The base of the shell is concentrically sulcate. The aperture is subrhomboid, with its upper part smooth. The columella is arcuate; terminating in two teeth. Characteristics of this species are: the whorls are divided by a nodose keel into a larger convex upper portion and a smaller channelled lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Luctuosa
''Tegula luctuosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Tegula luctuosa (d'Orbigny, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718801 on 2013-12-23 Description The height of the shell attains 35 mm, its diameter 44 mm. The solid, heavy shell is depressed, broadly umbilicate, and has a conoidal shape. It is black or purplish. The spire is more or less depressed. The sutures are linear. The shell contains 5 to 6 whorls. The upper ones have a strong carina midway between the sutures. The body whorl is carinated at the periphery and above, generally showing a less prominent carina on the base near the periphery. The aperture is oblique. The arcuate columella is oblique. The umbilicus is broad and deep, with a spiral rib within. This species is characterized by its wide umbilicus and strongly keeled whorls. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Corvus
''Tegula corvus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula corvus'' (Philippi, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575628 on 2012-09-01 Description The size of the shell attains 9 mm. The rather thick shell is narrowly and profoundly perforate and has a conoid shape. It is dull cinereous, ornamented with castaneous radiating flammules. The six whorls are rather convex and spirally finely lirate. The lirae number 7 to 8 on the penultimate whorl, 5 on the preceding. The body whorl is rounded, compressed below the suture above, somewhat convex beneath, and provided with about 10 concentric lirae. The ovate aperture is slightly dilated, the lip plicatulate within. The arcuate columella is thin in the middle, concave and bears 2 or 3 tubercles below. The green columellar callus is thick, and slightly impinging upon the umbilicus. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Gallina
''Tegula gallina'' (or commonly, Speckled Tegula) is a North American species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tegula gallina (Forbes, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534191 on 2012-09-13 Description The shell of ''T. gallina'' is typically high and wide, though it may be slightly higher than wide. The imperforate, heavy, solid, thick shell has a conoidal shape and is elevated. Its colors show alternating whitish and purplish-grey or blackish crowded, slanting axial stripes, speckled with whitish. The stripes occupy the interstices between close, narrow superficial folds of the surface, which may be well-marked, or obsolete, continuous or cut into granules by equally close spiral furrows, the latter sometimes predominating. Its 5 to 6 whorls are convex and rough, and usually indented a short distance below the suture. The spire is conoidal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Funebralis
''Tegula funebralis'', the black turban snail or black tegula, is a species of medium-sized marine sea snail in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Tegula funebralis (A. Adams, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607163 on 2012-09-10 This eastern Pacific Ocean species was previously known as ''Chlorostoma funebralis''. Description Most adults have shells which are 20 to 50 mm (or about an inch, to an inch and three quarters) in diameter. Adults weigh anywhere from 2 to 20 grams. Individuals can live anywhere from 7 to 30 years; studies have shown that individuals inhabiting the more northern portions of the organism's range are larger and live longer on average than organisms inhabiting the southern portions. In 1971, a new sense organ was discovered in this marine snail. Chemoreceptor organs were found near the base on the border of the leaflets of the ctenidium (comb-like respiratory gill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Fasciata
''Agathistoma fasciatum'' (known commonly as the Smooth Atlantic Tegula) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. Description ''A. fasciatum'' is slightly smaller than '' T. lividomaculata'', which is high, and somewhat wider than that. Its thick, solid shell is depressed and is umbilicate. The six whorls are smooth, convex and rounded. The apex is acute. The upper whorls are nearly flat, the last flattened beneath the suture. The base of the shell is rounded, concave around the umbilicus. The aperture is oblique. The outer lip is finely crenulated within. The columella is short, arcuate, with a white callus above and two transverse tubercles at its base. The color of the shell is reddish or pale tan to dark brown, usually with irregular, axially distributed splotches of white, and fine spiral lines of alternating reddish and white spots or streaks. A pale band is often present at the periphery of the last whorl. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Excavata
''Tegula excavata'', common name the green-based tegula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. Description The height of the shell varies between 12 mm and 18 mm. The umbilicate shell has a conical shape. It is dull grayish, olivaceous or pinkish, longitudinally lineolate with a darker shade, frequently appearing unicolored. The spire is conic. The apex is eroded or acute. The 6 to 7 whorls are flattened, scarcely convex, very obsoletely spirally grooved. The body whorl is acutely carinated at the periphery, flat or plano-concave beneath, concentrically lirate. The large aperture is subhorizontal, iridescent within. The columella is sinuous, unidentate in the middle, green, half surrounding the umbilicus with a sickle-shaped callus. The umbilicus is funnel-shaped, green or white within, broadly expanding at its opening. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Euryomphala
''Tegula euryomphala'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Tegula euryomphala (Jonas, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718799 on 2013-12-20 Description The size of the shell varies between 23 mm and 40 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a conical shape. It is black or purplish. The elevated spire is conical. The about six whorls are somewhat convex, and nearly smooth. The body whorl is more or less angulate at the periphery, sometimes obtusely bicarinate. The oblique aperture is rather small. The columella is arcuate, spreading above in a white callus. The umbilicus is white within, somewhat funnel-shaped, bearing a spiral rib which terminates in a denticle in the middle of the columella. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
