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''Terebralia semistriata'', common name the striate mud creeper, is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
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
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
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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Potamididae ''Potamididae'', common name potamidids (also known as horn snails or mudwhelks) are a family (biology), family of small to large brackish water snails that live on mud flats, mangroves and similar habitats. They are amphibious gastropod mollusc ...
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Description

The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 75 mm.


Distribution

This marine species occurs also in intertidal flats, mangroves, mud-silt off
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).


References

* Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. * Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp. * Sowerby, G.B. 1855. ''Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells''. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847–899, pls 176–186. * Sowerby, G.B. 1865. ''Monograph of the genus Pyrazus.'' Reeve's manuscript. pl. 1 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. * Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. ''Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae''. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls. * Houbrick, R.S. 1991. ''Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia).'' Malacologia 33(1): 289-338 * Wilson, B. 1993. ''Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods''. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.


External links

* Potamididae Gastropods described in 1852 {{Potamididae-stub