Turris aequensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
Turris aequensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Turridae |
Genus: | Turris |
Species: | T. aequensis
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Binomial name | |
Turris aequensis (Grateloup, 1832)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 26 mm.
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Distribution
editThis extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata in Aquitaine, France.
References
edit- de Grateloup, J. P. S. "Description d'un genre nouveau de coquille, appele Neritopsis." Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux 5 (1832): 125-131.