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Little Screw Shell
Turritella cingulifera
Turritella cingulifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.
It is placed either in subgenus Kurosioia or Haustator.
From the article Turritella cingulifera on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The slender conical shell is whitish to yellowish brown with a chestnut band next to the suture. The shell sometimes has undulating, transverse chestnut lines or a central chestnut band made up of two or three close parallel lines on the body whorl. The shell has about twelve whorls. They are contracted between the deep suture and then rounded with a number of thin, elevated, spiral striae. The length of the shell is 1,90 cm (.75-inch).
Range & habitat
This marine species is found in the sublittoral zone of Australian waters, the Indo-Pacific Region and the East China Sea.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 909403.