''Vexitomina coxi'', common name Cox's turrid, 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 Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
Description
The length of the shell attains 33 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is
endemic to Australia and occurs off
New South Wales,
Queensland,
Tasmania and
Victoria
References
* Angas, G.F. 1867. ''Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales.'' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110–117, pl. 13
* Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. ''On some new Tasmanian marine shells.'' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1878: 32-40
* Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1906. ''Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part IX.'' With complete index to the whole Catalogue. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 18(2): 39-92
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56* May, W.L. 1923. ''An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species.'' Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
* Allan, J.K. 1950. ''Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land''. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
* Laseron, C. 1954. ''Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca).'' Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
* Powell, A.W.B. 1969. ''The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae.'' Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188-324
* Wilson, B. 1994. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods.'' Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
External links
*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
coxi
Gastropods of Australia
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