Turris crispa
| Turris crispa | |
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| Turris crispa crispa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Turrinae |
| Genus: | Turris |
| Species: | T. crispa |
| Binomial name | |
| Turris crispa (Lamarck, 1816) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Turris crispa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1][2]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 160 mm
Distribution
This marine species occurs along Madagascar, Australia, Japan, the Philippines and the Fiji Islands.
References
- 1 2 Turris crispa (Lamarck, 1816). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ↑ Olivera, Baldomero. "The SubfamiIy Turrinae in the Philippines: The Genus Turris (Roding, 1798)", Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. 128, p. 295 (1999). This source uses the synonym "Turris Dollyae".
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