Pyrene testudinaria
Link,
1807 (Sea Snail)
Organism information awaits expert curation
Organism information awaits expert curation
| Taxonomy | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
Description
Size: 2 cm.
Color: White, pale brown, orange, or yellow, with crowded white tent marks or a dense reticulate pattern of wavy axial lines, interior white.
Biconical or stoutly fusiform, spire height amost half total shell length, whorls convex, base of body whorl hardly at all contracted, outer lip almost straight, inner margin with a central swelling bearing 5-8 denticles, columellar smooth or with a few tiny anterior denticles, callus weak or lacking.
Size: 2 cm.
Color: White, pale brown, orange, or yellow, with crowded white tent marks or a dense reticulate pattern of wavy axial lines, interior white.
Biconical or stoutly fusiform, spire height amost half total shell length, whorls convex, base of body whorl hardly at all contracted, outer lip almost straight, inner margin with a central swelling bearing 5-8 denticles, columellar smooth or with a few tiny anterior denticles, callus weak or lacking.
Synonym (s)
• Columbella japonica Reeve, 1858
• Columbella lactescens Souverbie, 1866
• Columbella pardalina Lamarck, 1822
• Columbella pardalina var. bifasciata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. crocea Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. elongatula Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. fulgurata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. lanceolata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. laxa Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. minor Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. nigrescens Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. picturata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. sublactescens Hervier, 1899
• Columbella sagena Reeve, 1858
• Columbella testudinaria Link, 1807
• Columbella tylerae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834
• Columbella vulpecula Sowerby, 1847
• Euplica fabula Sowerby, 1844
• Pyrene lacteoides Habe & Kosuge, 1966
• Pyrene testudinaria nigropardalis Habe & Kosu, 1966
• Columbella japonica Reeve, 1858
• Columbella lactescens Souverbie, 1866
• Columbella pardalina Lamarck, 1822
• Columbella pardalina var. bifasciata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. crocea Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. elongatula Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. fulgurata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. lanceolata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. laxa Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. minor Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. nigrescens Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. picturata Hervier, 1899
• Columbella pardalina var. sublactescens Hervier, 1899
• Columbella sagena Reeve, 1858
• Columbella testudinaria Link, 1807
• Columbella tylerae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834
• Columbella vulpecula Sowerby, 1847
• Euplica fabula Sowerby, 1844
• Pyrene lacteoides Habe & Kosuge, 1966
• Pyrene testudinaria nigropardalis Habe & Kosu, 1966
Common Name (s)
Economic Importance and Threats
Ecology
Habitat: Reef Associated
Habitat: Reef Associated
Biogeography
• INDIA
• INDIA
Literature Source(s)
- Subba Rao, NV (2003) Indian seashells Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI, Kolkata (Part 1) 416 pp Available at - NCL, Pune
- OBIS Indo-Pacific molluscan database Available at - http://clade.ansp.org/obis/find_mollusk.html
- Gulbin, VV and Evseev, GA (1997) Intertidal Prosobranch Gastropods of Vietnam Galaxea Ryukyus University, Japan 13(2) 157-166 Available at - NIO, RC Kochi
- Allen, GR (2005) Reef fishes of northwestern Madagascar RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 31 39-48
- Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org
- Wilson, B; Wilson, C and Baker, P (1994) Australian marine shells 2 1-370 Available at - NIO, Goa
- Shell Available at - http://shell.cable.nu/
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