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Tropaeas subulata

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Tropaeas subulata
Drawing of a shell of Tropaeas subulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Tropaeas
Species:
T. subulata
Binomial name
Tropaeas subulata
(A. Adams, 1853)

Tropaeas subulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Description

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The whitish, somewhat shining shell is smooth and pellucid. The length of the shell is 9.5 mm. Its apex is mucronate. The whorls of the teleoconch are plano-convex, strongly longitudinally costate, and with punctate interstices. The columella is uniplicate in the middle. The aperture is produced and subchanneled below. The shell is umbilicated.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and off Japan.

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