Tenaturris verdensis

Tenaturris verdensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Tenaturris verdensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Tenaturris
Species:
T. verdensis
Binomial name
Tenaturris verdensis
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cytharella verdensis Dall, 1919 (original combination)
  • Tenaturris burchi Hertlein, L.G. & A.M. Strong, 1951

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6.5 mm and 16 mm.

(Original description) The small shell has a short- fusiform shape. It is whitish or feebly dotted with brown, with three brown whorls in the protoconch and four subsequent whorls. The apex of the protoconch is very small, smooth, the other two microscopically rugose. The suture is appressed behind a faint anal fasciole. The whorls are moderately rounded. The spiral sculpture is uniform, consisting of fine attenuated close-set spiral threads covering the whole surface and crossed by minutely sharp incremental lines giving a peculiarly rough effect. The other axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl about 12) rather feeble rounded ribs obsolete anteriorly with about equal interspaces. The aperture is elongate, narrow with no differentiated siphonal canal. The outer lip is moderately varicose, sharp edged and smooth within. The anal sulcus is rounded, shallow and close to the suture.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Sea of Cortez, Western Mexico

References
  1. Tenaturris verdensis (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 August 2011.
  2. Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Tenaturris verdensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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