''Purpuraturris cryptorrhaphe'' 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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in the

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Turridae Turridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family name for a number of predatory sea snails, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). ...

, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Purpuraturris cryptorraphe (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609232 on 2022-11-16

Description

The length of the shell 70 mm, its maximum diameter 18 mm. The shell has a yellowish brown to chestnut-color. It contains two strong sharp keels, and smaller revolving lines. The aperture is frequently tinged with purple.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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and east to

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and

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, Australia.

References

* Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1–256, pls 1-32. * Schepman, M.M. 1913. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 5. Toxoglossa. Resultats Siboga-Expeditie 49(1): 365–452, pls 25-30 * Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346 * Shikama, T. 1964. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 2 pp. 1–212. * Kilburn, R.N., Fedosov, A.E., Olivera, B.M. 2012. Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda:Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58

External links

Sowerby I, G. B. (1825). A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville: arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species- London, vii + 92 + xxxiv pp

Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. Richard Taylor, London. Iv (+1) + 59 pp., plates 1-8

Kiener L.C. 1839-1842. Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 5. Famille des Canalifères. Première partie. Genres Cérite (Cerithium), Adanson, pp. 1-104, pl. 1-32

Chase, K., Watkins, M., Safavi-Hemami, H. & Olivera, B. M. (2022). Integrating venom peptide libraries into a phylogenetic and broader biological framework. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9: 784419

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
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