Biology:Terebra lindae

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Terebra lindae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Terebra
Species:
T. lindae
Binomial name
Terebra lindae
Petuch, 1987

Terebra lindae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]

Description

Original description: "Shell very elongated, slender: suture bordered by row of very large, rounded beads; row of smaller beads below (anterior to) row of large beads; rest of whorl smooth, shiny; color orange-tan with two rows of larger, reddish-brown spots on each whorl, one row along suture, often between subsutural beads; columella and siphonal canal bright yellow; interior of aperture orange-tan."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Dredged from) 150 metres depth
50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."[3]

References

  1. Terebra lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 April 2010.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 18. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 18. Publ: CERF

Wikidata ☰ Q3139865 entry