''Austrocochlea rudis'', common name the rough periwinkle or the roughened austrocochlea, is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Austrocochlea rudis'' (Gray, 1826). Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546942 on 2012-11-23

Description

The imperforate shell has an orbiculate-conical shape. The blunt spire shows transversal black lines and oblique longitudinal striae. The columella is subtuberculate. The smooth lip is black and within with a golden yellow margin.Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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Distribution

This marine species is

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to Australia and occurs off

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

and

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

References

* Menke, C.T. 1843. ''Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana''. Hannover : Hahniana 46 pp * Philippi, R.A. 1849. ''Centuria altera Testaceorum novorum''. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 5: 99-112 * Adams, A. 1853. ''Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae, a family of gastropodous Mollusca''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 150-192 * Philippi, R.A. 1855. ''Trochidae''. pp. 313–372 in Küster, H.C. (ed). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2 * Tate, R. 1879. ''Zoologica et Palaeontologica Miscellanea, chiefly relating to South Australia''. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide 1878-79: 129-140 * Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. ''A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania''. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471 * Iredale, T. 1915. ''A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca".'' Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 * Hedley, C. 1916. ''A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia''. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 * Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1934. ''South Australian Shells. Part 13''. South Australian Naturalist 1 16: 1-6 * Cotton, B.C. 1959. ''South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda''. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp * Wilson, B. 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells''. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp

External links

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Encyclopedia of Life

GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

World Register of Marine Species
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4825616 rudis Gastropods of Australia Gastropods described in 1826