Cheungbeia mindanensis

Cheungbeia mindanensis, common name the Kawamura's turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Cheungbeia mindanensis
Shell of Cheungbeia mindanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Cheungbeia
Species:
C. mindanensis
Binomial name
Cheungbeia mindanensis
(Smith E. A., 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) mindanensis E. A. Smith, 1877 (basionym)
  • Pleurotoma mindanensis Smith E. A., 1877 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 40 mm.

The elongate, ovate-fusiform shell is turreted. The dark white shell has a red band around the suture. It contains 12 whorls of which three, smooth and convex whorls in the protoconch. The consequent whorls protrude slightly, angular in the middle and slightly concave below. The ribs (13 in the penultimate whorls but becoming obsolete towards the base) in this species are flexuous and very oblique and continuous up the spire. But whether this latter be a constant character the author cannot say, as but a single example is at hand. The obtuse angulation of the body whorl at the periphery gives it a squarish aspect. The length of the aperture measures 3/7 of the total length. The outer lip is sharp and crenate at the margin. The columella is slightly twisted and tubercled at the top. The siphonal canal is slightly recurved.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.

References
  1. Cheungbeia mindanensis (Smith E. A., 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. Smith E.A. (1877). Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 19: 488–501
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
  • Leung KF. & Morton B. (2003). Effects of long-term anthropogenic perturbations on three subtidal epibenthic molluscan communities in Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977–2001. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 655–717
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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