Toxiclionella tumida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Toxiclionella |
Species: | T. tumida
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Binomial name | |
Toxiclionella tumida (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870)
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Toxiclionella tumida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
The shell grows to a length of 60 mm. The thick shell is subfusiform. The ground color of the shell is light green, with a reddish tone between the arcuate, opisthocline ribs and with a thick, olive-brown periostracum. The acuminate, orthoconic spire ends abruptly in a large blunt protoconch. The whorls are slightly convex. The outer lip shows a thick callus and parietal tubercle. The anal sinus in this species is very wide and rather shallow. The pear-shaped aperture is relatively large. The broad siphonal canal is unnotched and of moderate length. The subsutural cord is strong and more tumid than in Toxiclionella haliplex.[3][4]
This marine species occurs along the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.