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Purpuraturris cristata

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Purpuraturris cristata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Purpuraturris
Species:
P. cristata
Binomial name
Purpuraturris cristata
(Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000)
Synonyms[1]

Turris cristata Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000

Purpuraturris cristata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off the Philippines and Western Australia.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Purpuraturris cristata (Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1609233 on 2022-11-18
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
  • Vera-Pelaez, J. L., Vega-Luz, R. & Lozano-Francisco, M. C. (2000). Five new species of the genus Turris Roding, 1798 (Gastropoda; Turridae; Turrinae) of the Philippines and one new species of the southern Indo-Pacific. Malakos (Revista de la Asociacióon Malacolóogica Andaluza). Monografia 2, 1-29.
  • Kilburn, R.N., Fedosov, A.E., Olivera, B.M. 2012. Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda:Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58
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