''Austrocochlea rudis'', common name the rough periwinkle or the roughened austrocochlea, is a

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Austrocochlea rudis'' (Gray, 1826). Accessed through:

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Description

The imperforate shell has an orbiculate-conical shape. The blunt spire shows transversal black lines and oblique longitudinal striae. The columella is subtuberculate. The smooth lip is black and within with a golden yellow margin.Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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Distribution

This marine species is

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to Australia and occurs off

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and

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References

* Menke, C.T. 1843. ''Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana''. Hannover : Hahniana 46 pp * Philippi, R.A. 1849. ''Centuria altera Testaceorum novorum''. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5: 99-112 * Adams, A. 1853. ''Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192 * Philippi, R.A. 1855. ''Trochidae''. pp. 313–372 in Küster, H.C. (ed). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2 * Tate, R. 1879. ''Zoologica et Palaeontologica Miscellanea, chiefly relating to South Australia''. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1878-79: 129-140 * Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. ''A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania''. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 * Iredale, T. 1915. ''A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca".'' Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 * Hedley, C. 1916. ''A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia''. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 * Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1934. ''South Australian Shells. Part 13''. South Australian Naturalist 1 16: 1-6 * Cotton, B.C. 1959. ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda''. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp * Wilson, B. 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells''. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q4825616 rudis Gastropods of Australia Gastropods described in 1826