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Harpa davidis   Roding,  1798 (Sea Snail)
Organism information awaits expert curation

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Description
Size: Length 42.56-63.3 mm; diameter 27.92-44.25 mm.

Color: Ground color grayish pink arrangement, red brown or pale pink spiral bands pattern.

Shell moderate size, broadly ovate with rather short, broadly conical spire. Protoconch elevated-mamillate, pale pink, of 3 ¼ to 3 ¾ convex whorls. Early postnuclear whorls reticulated by axial riblets and spiral cords, moderately angulate of antepenultimate whorl covered by extensions of earlier parietal calluses.

Biogeography


• Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman (Lat: 10) (Long: 93) INDIA
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nicobar Islands (Lat: 7) (Long: 93) INDIA
• Orissa, Mahanadi Estuary (Lat: 20.32) (Long: 86.75) INDIA
• Orissa INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Chennai INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Rameswaram INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Pamban INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Tharangambadi INDIA
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands 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

• Tikadar, BK; Daniel, A and Subbarao, NV (1986) Sea shore animals of Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Director, ZSI, Kolkatta 188 Available at - ZSI, Pune

• Subba Rao, NV and Dey, A (2000) Catalogue of marine molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Occasional paper no 187 Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI 1-323 Available at - NCL, Pune

• (2001) Fauna of Godavari estuary, Andhra Pradesh Estuarine ecosystem series 4 ZSI, Kolkata 1-166 Available at - ZSI, Pune

• Zoological Survey of India (Eds.) (1998) Fauna Of Mahanadi estuary, Orissa Estuarine ecosystem series no 3 ZSI, Kolkata 1-218 Available at - ZSI, Pune

• OBIS Indo-Pacific molluscan database: Taxa reported from regions in India (W) Available at - http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/region3140

• OBIS Indo-Pacific molluscan database Available at - http://clade.ansp.org/obis/find_mollusk.html

• Rehder, HA (1973) The Family Harpidae of the World Indo-Pacific Mollusca Delaware Museum of Natural History Grenville, Delaware, U.S.A 3(16) 237 Available at - NIO, Goa

• Eddie, H Hardy's internet guide to marine gastropods Available at - http://www.gastropods.com/

• Rao, NVS; Rao, KVS and Maitra, S (1991) Marine molluscs State fauna series 1: Fauna of Orissa Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta Part 3 1-175 Available at - NIO, Goa

• Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org

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