Tosatrochus attenuatus is a species of sea snail in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2] It is the only species in the genus Tosatrochus.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Tosatrochus MacNeil, 1961 |
| Species: | T. attenuatus
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| Tosatrochus attenuatus (Jonas, 1844)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 25 mm. The thick, imperforate or very narrowly perforate shell has a conic-elongated shape. It is whitish, ornamented with radiating livid-brown flammules, brown punctulate. The 9 whorls are convex, spirally lirate (the lirae unequal) and longitudinally nodose-costate, the nodules more prominent below. The sutures are impressed. The angulated body whorl is depressed beneath the sutures and nodulous at the periphery. It is very convex and with about 8 concentric lirae beneath, the interstices with intercalated lirulae. The aperture is subquadrate and canaliculate within. The basal margin is arcuate and plicate. The columella is subangular, concave, strongly truncate at base, with a short callus over the umbilicus.[4]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines and South Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tosatrochus attenuatus (Jonas, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547324 on 2020-08-02
- ^ Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands. Visaya Supplement 2: 1-228.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Tosatrochus MacNeil, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512290 on 2020-08-02
- ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus elongatus)