Ptychobela nodulosa

Ptychobela nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Ptychobela nodulosa
Shells of Ptychobela nodulosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Ptychobela
Species:
P. nodulosa
Binomial name
Ptychobela nodulosa
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula crenularis Lamarck, 1816
  • Drillia crenularis (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Murex nodulosus Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) atkinsonii E. A. Smith, 1877
  • Pleurotoma atkinsonii E. A. Smith, 1877
  • Ptychobela crenularis (Lamarck, 1816)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 34 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Australia; also found off Western India

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=579019 on 2019-01-17
  • Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae]
  • Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488.
  • Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp.
  • Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. II. Teil. pp. in Chun, C. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Damfper "Valdivia" 1898–1899. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 17(2) 348 pp., 34 pls.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1966. The molluscan families Speightiidae and Turridae, an evaluation of the valid taxa, both Recent and fossil, with list of characteristic species. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 5: 1–184, pls 1–23
  • Taylor, J. D. (1982). Diets of sublittoral predatory gastropods of Hong Kong. In: Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China (ed. Morton, B.), vol. 2, pp907-920. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.
  • Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71-102
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • 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


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