Turricula javana

Turricula javana, common name the Java turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.^[1][2]

Turricula javana
Apertural view of a shell of Turricula javana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Clavatulidae
Genus:	Turricula
Species:	T. javana
Binomial name
Turricula javana (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms[1]
Murex javanus Linnaeus, 1767 (basionym) Murex turris Gmelin, 1791 Pleurotoma contorta G. Perry, 1811 Pleurotoma javana Lamarck, 1816 Pleurotoma nodifera Lamarck, 1822 Pleurotoma spuria Link, 1807 Surcula javana (Linnaeus, 1767) Turricula flammea Schumacher, 1817 Turris nodifera (Lamarck, 1822) (combination of M.Smith, 1940)

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 70 mm. The whorls are angular and tuberculated in the middle. These tubercles develop from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, the tubercles lighter.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution going from East Africa and Pakistan to Queensland, Australia; off Vietnam and in the South China Sea.