''Terebralia semistriata'', common name the striate mud creeper, is a species 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 in the family Potamididae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs also in intertidal flats, mangroves, mud-silt off Papua New Guinea and Australia ( Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia). Terebralia semistriata 001

References

* Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. * Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp. * Sowerby, G.B. 1855. ''Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells''. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847–899, pls 176–186. * Sowerby, G.B. 1865. ''Monograph of the genus Pyrazus.'' Reeve's manuscript. pl. 1 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. * Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. ''Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae''. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. * Houbrick, R.S. 1991. ''Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia).'' Malacologia 33(1): 289-338 * Wilson, B. 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

External links

* Potamididae Gastropods described in 1852 {{Potamididae-stub