''Turricula tornata'', common name the turned turrid, 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 Clavatulidae.Rosenberg, G. (2015). Turricula tornata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746168 on 4 July 2016

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 75 mm. The shell is smooth and ivory-like. The lower portion of

body whorl The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk. In gastropods In gastropods, the b ...

shows revolving striae. The upper portion of the whorls are broadly, concavely channeled. The anal sinus is broad and shallow. The

siphonal canal The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is ...

is long. The color of the shell is whitish or yellowish, flexuously strigated with light brown. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 237; 1884 (described as ''Surcula tornata'')

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution : from the Red Sea to Thailand and the Western Pacific.

References

* Grant, U. S. & Gale, H. R. (1931). ''Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent region''. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1: 1036 pp. + 32 pl

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turricula Tornata

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Gastropods described in 1817