''Tritonoturris secta'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". '' Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 3 ...

.Baoquan Li& Xinzheng Li & Richard N. Kilburn, ''Report on the genus Tritonoturris s. l., (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the South China Sea''; Journal of Conchology 40(Part 2) · April 2010
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Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6.9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...

References

* Sowerby G.B. 1870 - ''Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells''. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870: 249–259, pls 21–22

External links

*
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tritonoturris Secta secta Gastropods described in 1870