Vexitomina coxi
| Vexitomina coxi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Vexitomina |
| Species: | V. coxi |
| Binomial name | |
| Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Vexitomina coxi, common name Cox's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 33 mm.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria
References
- 1 2 Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- Angas, G.F. 1867. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110-117, pl. 13
- Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1878: 32-40
- Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1906. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part IX. With complete index to the whole Catalogue. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 18(2): 39-92
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
- May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.
- Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
- Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the New South Wales Turridae (Mollusca). Australian Zoological Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1-56, pls 1-12.
- Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207-415, pls 188-324
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
External links
- Gastropods.com: Vexitomina coxi
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
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