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Tenguella (gastropod)
''Tenguella'' is a genus of small, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description ''Tenguella'' species have thick shells bearing regular dark nodules. In ''T. granulata'' and ''T. marginalba'', the furrows between the nodules are a contrasting lighter colour. Fully-grown adult shells range from roughly for ''T. chinoi'' to for ''T. granulata''. The nodulated appearance is reminiscent of a compound fruit, this is reflected in the common names such as " mulberry shell" and "granulated drupe". They live on rocky shores in the intertidal zone or in shallow water, where they prey on other molluscs by drilling through their shells. Distribution Species are found through the Indian Ocean and West Pacific (IWP), from eastern Africa to Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands, and Japan. Most are tropical to sub-tropical, though ''T. marginalba'' is also found on temperate shores. Taxonomy ''Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Chinoi
Tenguella (also known as Temelá) was the founder of the Empire of Great Fulo. He was responsible, along with his son, for the Fula migration to the Gambia. He was named Great Fulo or Great king of the Fulos in Portuguese documents of the time. Background The Fula are a West African nomadic people. They had been moving south within the Mali Empire since the thirteenth century. They had generally submitted to the laws of the settled farmers in the region and so had avoided large confrontations. By the end of the 15th Century, they had a strong presence in Futa Tooro, Macina, Fouta Djallon and Bondu. Reign Tenguella became chief of the Fula in 1464. Conflict with the Mali Empire started around 1480. The fighting escalated and Tenguella built up an army which included a strong and effective cavalry force. In response, in 1490 Mansa Mahmud II requested an alliance and firearms from Portugal to fight the Fula, but these were not forthcoming. It was at this time that Tenguell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Marginalba
''Tenguella marginalba'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It is commonly known as the mulberry whelk and is found in shallow waters in the Indo-Pacific and around the north and east coasts of Australia. Description The mulberry whelk has a strong, robust shell and can grow to about but a more normal adult size is . Each body whorl has five rows of purple or blackish, roughly square, nodules separated by pale grey areas with fine sculptured vertical and horizontal lines. The lip is curved with four similar-sized ridges or teeth on its inner surface. The columella, or central axis, is white and is stout with a smooth surface. The interior of the shell is purple-grey, contrasting with the cream teeth and lip. Distribution and habitat The mulberry whelk is found on the north and east coasts of Australia and on islands in the central Indo-Pacific Ocean. In Australia, its range extends from the north west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Hoffmani
''Tenguella hoffmani'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ... Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Tenguella hoffmani'' Houart, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=993925 on 2019-01-06Houart R. (2017). Description of a new species of Tenguella (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ergalataxinae) from Oman. Gloria Maris. 56(1): 2-7. Distribution This species occurs in Oman. References hoffmani Gastropods described in 2017 {{Ergalataxinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Granulata
''Tenguella granulata'', common name the mulberry shell or the granulated drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The shell size varies between 18 mm and 30 mm. The conical, oblong shell is compact and contains no varices. It is covered with dark brown to black blunt knobs on a white background with spiral cords between the rows. The body whorl is covered with six rows of nodules. The outer lip is dentate with four to five teeth within. The narrow aperture is blackish. The columella and the inner lip are white. This globular shape, tight shell coiling, strong sculpture, a dentate outer lip and narrow aperture offers an added protection against shell-crushing predators, such as fishes and crabs. This mollusc is a predator and feeds by drilling sedentary or semi-mobile prey. It eats only other molluscs, mainly gastropods of the genera ''Cerithium'', '' Rissoina'', '' Heliacus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedgehog
A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera found throughout parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas. However, the extinct genus ''Amphechinus'' was once present in North America. Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and they have changed little over the last fifteen million years. Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life. Their spiny protection resembles that of porcupines, which are rodents, and echidnas, a type of monotreme. Etymology The name ''hedgehog'' came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English ''heyghoge'', from ''heyg'', ''hegge'' ("hedge"), because it frequents hedgerows, and ''hoge'', ''hogge'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Ericius
Tenguella (also known as Temelá) was the founder of the Empire of Great Fulo. He was responsible, along with his son, for the Fula migration to the Gambia. He was named Great Fulo or Great king of the Fulos in Portuguese documents of the time. Background The Fula are a West African nomadic people. They had been moving south within the Mali Empire since the thirteenth century. They had generally submitted to the laws of the settled farmers in the region and so had avoided large confrontations. By the end of the 15th Century, they had a strong presence in Futa Tooro, Macina, Fouta Djallon and Bondu. Reign Tenguella became chief of the Fula in 1464. Conflict with the Mali Empire started around 1480. The fighting escalated and Tenguella built up an army which included a strong and effective cavalry force. In response, in 1490 Mansa Mahmud II requested an alliance and firearms from Portugal to fight the Fula, but these were not forthcoming. It was at this time that Tenguell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malacology
Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, and cephalopods, along with numerous other kinds, many of which have shells. One division of malacology, conchology, is devoted to the study of mollusk shells. Malacology derives . Fields within malacological research include taxonomy, ecology and evolution. Applied malacology studies medical, veterinary, and agricultural applications; for example, mollusks as vectors of disease, as in schistosomiasis. Archaeology employs malacology to understand the evolution of the climate, the biota of the area, and the usage of the site. In 1681, Filippo Bonanni wrote the first book ever published that was solely about seashells, the shells of marine mollusks. The book was entitled: In 1868, the German Malacological Society was founded. Zoologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenguella Ceylonica
''Tenguella ceylonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ... Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Tenguella ceylonica'' (Dall, 1923). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716637 on 2019-01-06 References ceylonica Gastropods described in 1923 {{Ergalataxinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muricodrupa
''Muricodrupa'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ergalataxinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Species * '' Muricodrupa anaxares'' (Kiener, 1836) (previously ''Morula anaxares'') * '' Muricodrupa fenestrata'' (Blainville, 1832) According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) before 2019, the following species were included within the genus ''Muricodrupa'' : * ''Muricodrupa fiscellum'' (Gmelin, 1791), now '' Murichorda fiscellum'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Muricodrupa jacobsoni'' Emerson & D'Attilio, 1981, now '' Murichorda jacobsoni'' (Emerson & D'Attilio, 1981) (original combination) The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (2006) also includes the following names in current use * ''Muricodrupa fusca'' (Küster, 1868 in 1859-68): synonym of '' Semiricinula fusca'' (Küster, 1862) * ''Muricodrupa pothuanii'' (Souleyet in Eydoux & Souleyet, 1852) * ''Muricodrupa stellaris'' (Hombron & Jaquinot, 1854) Taxonomy In 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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