''Terebra bellanodosa'' is a
species
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of
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 ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Terebridae
The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, is a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods in the superfamily Conoidea.Gofas, S. (2012). Terebridae. World Register of Marine Specie2012-10-12
These ga ...
, the auger snails.
[{MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Terebra bellanodosa Grabau & S. G. King, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=447422 on 2020-02-05]
References
* Grabau A.W. & King S.G. (1928). Shells of Peitaiho. Chapter V. Common univalves or gastropods of the Peitaiho beaches. The China Journal of Science and Arts. 8(6): 320–332
* Aubry U. (1999) Nuove terebre e antichi versi. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 47 pp
* Liu, J.Y.
uiyu(ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
* Grabau A.W. & King S.G. (1928). Shells of Peitaiho. Second edition. Revised and enlarged with 14 text-figures and numerous photographs of shells. Peking: The Peking Laboratory of Natural History,
i 281 pp., 14 text figures, 11 plates.
External links
Coan E.V., Lutaenko K.A., Zhang J.L. [Junlong] & Sun Q.M. [Qimeng]. (2015). The molluscan taxa of A. W. Grabau & S. G. King (1928) and their types. Malacologia. 58(1–2): 179–224Fedosov, A. E.; Malcolm, G.; Terryn, Y.; Gorson, J.; Modica, M. V.; Holford, M.; Puillandre, N. (2020). Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies
Terebridae
Gastropods described in 1999
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