Biology:Vexitomina regia
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Vexitomina regia | |
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| Shell of Vexitomina regia (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Vexitomina |
| Species: | V. regia
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| Binomial name | |
| Vexitomina regia (Reeve, 1842)
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Vexitomina regia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
Description
The periphery shows a double row of nodules. The whorls are smooth above and granulated below it. The anal sinus is small. The color of the shell is whitish maculated with chestnut.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific (Mauritius, the Philippines , Loyalty Islands) and off Australia (Queensland).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vexitomina regia (Reeve, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Drillia regia)
- Reeve, L.A. 1842. Conchologia Systematica or Complete System of Conchology: in which the Lepades and Conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 337 pp., pls 131–300.
- Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1874. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie 22: 187-201
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
- 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
- "Paradrillia regia" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_6347.shtml.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
Wikidata ☰ Q3721169 entry
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