Megastraea undosa
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Shell of Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828), with operculum measuring 71.4 mm height by 89.9 mm diameter, collected at Salt Creek Beack, Laguna Niguel, in California. | |
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Species: | M. undosa
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Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828)
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Lithopoma undosum (W. Wood, 1828) |
Megastraea undosa[1] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Distribution
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Description
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References
- ^ Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 August 2011.
External links
- Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.