Cheungbeia laterculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Cheungbeia
Species:
C. laterculata
Binomial name
Cheungbeia laterculata
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia laterculata Schepman 1913
  • Inquisitor laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
  • Inquisitor zonata (non Reeve, 1843): Chang and Wu 2000
  • Pleurotoma laterculata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 (original combination)

Cheungbeia laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 22 mm, its diameter 7.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the China Seas, off Vietnam, Southeast India and off the Gulf of Carpentaria to Queensland, Australia

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056323 on 2 June 2018
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Image of Cheungbeia laterculata; Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. and Li, Xin Zheng(2010) 'Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966(Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas', Journal of Natural History, 44: 11, 699–740
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