Taranis Granata
''Taranis granata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Raphitomidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Taranis granata (Hedley, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1259621 on 2020-02-16 Description The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm, its diameter 3 mm. (Original description) The rather small shell is solid, ovate, and sharply gradate. Its colour is uniform buff. The shell contains seven Whorl (mollusc), whorls, inclusive of the protoconch. They are contracted at the suture, angled at the shoulder, rounded at the periphery, and hollowed at the base. Sculpture (mollusc), Sculpture: The surface is reticulated by elevated flat-topped spirals and radials. On the upper whorls these are of equal value, and enclose deep square meshes. The radials amount on the body whorl to twenty-five, and on the antepenultimate to about twenty. They gradually d ...
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Sea Snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell. Definition Determining whether some gastropods should be called sea snails is not always easy. Some species that live in brackish water (such as certain neritids) can be listed as either freshwater snails or marine snails, and some species that live at or just above the high tide level (for example species in the genus '' Truncatella'') are sometimes considered to be sea snails and sometimes listed as land snails. Anatomy Sea snails are a very large group of animals and a very diverse one. Most snails that live in salt water respire using a gill or gills; a few species, though, have a lung, are intertidal, and are active only at low tide when they can move around in the air. These air-breathing species includ ...
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