''Cheungbeia laterculata'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Pseudomelatomidae Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...

, the turrids and alliesMolluscaBase (2018). Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056323 on 2 June 2018

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the China Seas, off Vietnam, Southeast India and off the

Gulf of Carpentaria The Gulf of Carpentaria (, ) is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea). The northern boundary is ...

to Queensland, Australia

References

Sowerby II, G. B. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1870): 249–259
* Schepman, M.M. 1913. ''Toxoglossa''. pp. 384–396 in Weber, M. & de Beaufort, L.F. (eds). The Prosobranchia, Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia Tectibranchiata, Tribe Bullomorpha, of the Siboga Expedition. Monograph 49. Siboga Expeditie 32(2)
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56
* Li B.Q., Kilburn R.N., & Li X.Z. (2010). ''Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas''. Journal of Natural History. 44, 699–740

External links

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Image of ''Cheungbeia laterculata''; Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. and Li, Xin Zheng(2010) 'Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966(Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas', Journal of Natural History, 44: 11, 699–740
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