Buccinaria urania is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Buccinaria urania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Buccinaria |
| Species: | B. urania
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| Binomial name | |
| Buccinaria urania (Smith E. A., 1906)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 11 mm.
The white ovately fusiform shell contains 10 whorls. In some of the upper whorls the upper margin just beneath the suture is also more or less nodose. The tubercles just above the suture are crossed by two or three sulci, so that each of them is tripartite or quadripartite. The oblong aperture has a sharp angle above and a narrow gutterlike, slightly recurved siphonal canal below. The outer lip is thin, the upper part gently curving. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Southeast India, the Andamans and off the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ a b Buccinaria urania (Smith E. A., 1906). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 October 2010.
- ^ Smith, E. A. "On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea."; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology ser. 7 vol. XVIII (1906)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Bouchet P. & Sysoev A. (1997) Revision of the Recent species of Buccinaria (Gastropoda: Conoidea), a genus of deep-water turrids of Tethyan origin. Venus, Japanese Journal of Malacology, 56:93-119