Terebralia semistriata, common name the striate mud creeper, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Terebralia |
| Species: | T. semistriata
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| Terebralia semistriata (Mörch, 1852)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 75 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs also in intertidal flats, mangroves, mud-silt off Papua New Guinea and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
References
edit- ^ Terebralia semistriata (Mörch, 1852). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
- Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp.
- Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp.
- Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847–899, pls 176–186.
- Sowerby, G.B. 1865. Monograph of the genus Pyrazus. Reeve's manuscript. pl. 1 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15.
- Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls.
- Houbrick, R.S. 1991. Systematic review and functional morphology of the mangrove snails Terebralia and Telescopium (Potamididae; Prosobranchia). Malacologia 33(1): 289-338
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
External links
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