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Tegula (gastropod)
''Tegula'' is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Tegula Lesson, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413467 on 2012-09-10 Biology The function of the heart in ''Tegula'' snails may have a critical importance for their temperature tolerance. Species Species within the genus ''Tegula'' include: * '' Tegula argyrostoma'' (Gmelin, 1791) * '' Tegula atra'' (Lesson, 1830) * '' Tegula aureotincta'' (Forbes, 1850) - gilded tegula accessed 20 July 2011. * '' Tegula bergeroni'' McLean, 1970 * '' Tegula brunnea'' Philippi, 1848 - brown tegula: * '' Tegula cooksoni'' (E.A. Smith, 1877) * '' Tegula corrugata'' (A. Adams, 1853) * '' Tegula corteziana'' Mclean, 1970 * '' Tegula corvus'' (Philippi, 1850) * ''Tegula eiseni'' Jordan, 1936 - banded tegula, western banded tegula * ''Tegula euryomphala'' (Jonas, 1844) * ''Tegula excavata'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Pulligo
''Tegula pulligo'', common name the dusky tegula, is a species of medium-sized sea snail with gills and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tegulidae.Rosenberg, G. (2013). Tegula pulligo (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species aWoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tegula pulligo (Gmelin, 1791)on 2013-12-30 This is an Eastern Pacific Ocean species. Description The size of the shell varies between 19 mm and 41 mm. The solid shell is deeply and widely umbilicate. It has a conical shape with an elevated spire. Its color is dull purplish or brown, when worn often orange, obliquely streaked with white or unicolored. The seven whorls are flattened, the upper ones finely spirally striate and sometimes very obsoletely plicate. The remainder is smooth, obliquely finely striate. The base of the shell is flattened, slightly convex, obliquely streaked, concave and white around the umbilicus. The body whorl is bluntly angled at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Cooksoni
''Tegula cooksoni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula cooksoni'' (E.A. Smith, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575626 on 2012-09-01 Description The height of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 8 mm. The shell is deeply umbilicated. suborbicular and slightly conoidal. Its color is brown, variegated with rosy, painted with white lines articulated with black. The coloration of this species is not very definite. The upper surface is blotched irregularly with pink and brown, and some spiral articulated lines. The base is a trifle paler The 4½ whorls are nearly smooth, and slightly convex. They are sculptured with few delicate, fine spiral striae, which are most conspicuous on the base. The body whorl is convex above, and slightly depressed beneath the suture, at the periphery flattened and biangulate. The base of the shell i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Ignota
''Tegula ignota'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.Bouchet, P. (2013). Tegula ignota Ramírez-Böhme, 1976. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716917 on 2013-12-22 Description The size of the shell attains 35 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off 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 the east a .... References * Ramírez-Böhme J. (1976) ''Nueva especie de Trochidae: Tegula ignota n. sp. (Gastropoda, Monodontinae)''.Museo Nacional de Historia Natural antiago, Chile Noticiario Mensual 20(237-238): 3-5 External links To World Register of Marine Species* ignota Gastropods described in 1976 Endemic fauna of Chile {{Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Hotessieriana
''Tegula hotessieriana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. Description The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 13 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a conical shape. It is deep green, brown, pinkish or olivaceous, more or less dotted with white and a self-color, sometimes radiately flammulated with white. A tract around the umbilicus is white, tessellated with brown. The spire is elevated, sometimes scalariform. The apex acute. The upper whorls are slightly convex. The body whorl is convex, depressed below the suture and, rounded at the periphery. The whole surface bears numerous low, smooth spiral striae, which are often subobsolete on the body whorl, and it is then nearly smooth. The base of the shell is concave in the middle. The aperture is rounded-quadrate, smooth within or finely lirate. The columella is slightly sinuous, bidentate at base, expanding in a callus above, which slightly impinges upon the umbilicu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Gruneri
''Tegula gruneri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. Description The height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The shell is much more depressed than '' Tegula fasciata'' and has a discoidal shape. It is widely umbilicate. The surface is sculptured by numerous spiral slightly elevated lirulae, which are red, more or less articulated with white dots. The periphery shows frequently two or several more prominent lirae. Distribution This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles in the subtidal zone The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately in depth. From the point of view of marine biology it forms a relatively stable and well-illuminated .... References * Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. ''Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico'', Pp. 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegula Globulus
''Tegula globulus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula globulus'' (Carpenter, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575630 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. Description The size of its shell is 11 mm. Distribution This marine species is common under or on rocks at high-tide level off Southern California, United States; and Baja California, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema .... References External links To World Register of Marine Species* globulus Gastropods described in 1857 ... [...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 Felipensis
''Tegula felipensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.WoRMS (2012). ''Tegula felipensis'' McLean, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575629 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. Description The size of the shell varies between 14 mm and 17 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs off Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ..., Mexico. References External links To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca CollectionTo World Register of Marine Species* felipensis Gas ... [...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] |
Tegula Eiseni
''Tegula eiseni'', common name the western banded tegula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. Description The size of the shell varies between 13 mm and 22 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from central California, USA to Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ..., Mexico References * Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) ''Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined.'' Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506. External links * Wallawalla: ''Tegula eiseni'' eiseni Gastropods described in 1936 {{Trochoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
