Ptychobela griffithii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids.[1]
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| Shell of Ptychobela griffithii (holotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Ptychobela |
| Species: | P. griffithii
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| Ptychobela griffithii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
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- Subspecies
- Ptychobela griffithii gracilior (Von Martens, 1904)
Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 50 mm.
The small, solid shell has a fusiform shape. When the ribs and the smooth spiral lirae come together, they create axial nodes on the shoulder of each whorl. The depressed sutures lack a subsutural cord. The rather wide, slightly concave aperture measures about half the total length of the shell. The wide siphonal canal is moderately long. The outer lip is somewhat thickened. The ground color of the shell is brown with white axial nodes.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off Oman, in the Bay of Bengal and off Japan.
References
edit- ^ a b Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Marine Biodiversity Database of India: Ptychobela griffithii
- Subba Rao, NV (2003) Indian seashells Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI, Kolkata (Part 1) 416 pp Available at - NCL, Pune
External links
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- Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. (1833-1834). The Mollusca and Radiata. Vol. 12, In: E. Griffith, [1824−1835, The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, [...]. London: Whittaker and Co., viii + 601 pp., 61 pls. [1−138 (Date of publication according to Petit & Coan, 2008: pp 1–192, Mollusca pls. 1−39 - 1833; pp 193–601, pls. Zoophytes 2−20, Mollusca corrected pls. 28*, 36*, 37*, pls. 40-41 - 1834 ]
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Gastropods.com: Ptychobela griffithii
- Petit & Coan, The Molluscan Taxa Made Available In the Griffith & Pidgeon (1833–1834) Edition Of Cuvier, With Notes On the Editions Of Cuvier and On Wood's Index testaceologicus; Malacologia 50(1) · June 2008