Taranis nexilis

Taranis nexilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Subspecies
  • Taranis nexilis bicarinata (Suter, 1915)
  • Taranis nexilis recens (C. A. Fleming, 1948)

Taranis nexilis
Original image of a shell of Taranis nexilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Taranis
Species:
T. nexilis
Binomial name
Taranis nexilis
(Hutton, 1885)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella nexilis Hutton, 1885 (original combination)
  • Fenestrosyrinx nexilis (Hutton, 1885)
  • †Taranis nexilis nexilis (Hutton, 1885) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Turris (Hemipleurotoma) nexilis Hutton, 1885
  • Turris nexilis Hutton, 1885 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 2 mm.

(Original description) The minute, fusiform shell is cancellated. It contains six whorls with two polished whorls in the protoconch. The spire-whorls show a prominent spiral keel, crossed by rather oblique and rather distant spiral threads, forming an obtuse angle on the keel. The suture is margined. The body whorl contains 8 or 9 spiral ribs, the first and third larger than the others. The others after the sixth come very close together on the siphonal canal. These are crossed by rather distant longitudinal lines which form a very obtuse angle on the first spiral rib or keel. The aperture is less than half the length of the shell, rather constricted and angled behind. The columella is straight, produced into a short canal. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand and the Philippines.

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Taranis nexilis (Hutton, 1885). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578691 on 2020-02-22
  2. Hutton, F. W. (1885). Descriptions of new Tertiary shells. Part 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 17: 313-324
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
  • Powell, A. W. B. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The subfamily Turrinae concluded, Indo-Pacific mollusca. vol. 1, 1964
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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