Turridrupa jubata

Turridrupa jubata
	shells of Turridrupa jubata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Turridrupa
Species:	T. jubata
Binomial name
	Turridrupa jubata; (Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms
	Pleurotoma jubata Reeve, 1843; Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) jubata Hinds, 1843;

Turridrupa jubata, common name the crested pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 33.7 mm.

The smooth shell is acuminately fusiform. It is yellowish brown, the anterior end is white. The whorls are many-keeled. The middle keel is the largest, with a beaded row of granules immediately over it (about 25 per whorl). The siphonal canal is rather short. ^[2]

The sinus apex is situated at the end of the mid-shoulder cord. The sinus cord is finely gemmate.

The whorls are covered with several keels, of which the middle one is the largest. They contain a beaded row of granules immediately over it. The shell is yellowish brown. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

References

1 2 Turridrupa jubata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
↑ Reeve LA. 1843–46. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. Conchologia Iconica, or Illustra-tions of the shells of molluscous animals. London: Reeve Brothers. Vol. 1: pls 1–18(1843), pl. 19 (1844), pls 20–33 (1845); pls 34– 40, index and errata (1846)
↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

External links

Yuri I. Kantor, On the morphology and homology of the “central tooth” in the radulae of Turrinae (Conoidea: Turridae) ; Ruthenica, 2006, 16(1-2): 47-52.

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Turridrupa jubata (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.

[2] Reeve LA. 1843–46. Monograph of the genus Pleurotoma. Conchologia Iconica, or Illustra-tions of the shells of molluscous animals. London: Reeve Brothers. Vol. 1: pls 1–18(1843), pl. 19 (1844), pls 20–33 (1845); pls 34– 40, index and errata (1846)

[3] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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