Babylon snail
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Housing of Turris babylonia |
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The Babylon turritellidae ( Turris babylonia , frequent synonym : Lophiotoma babylonia ) is a snail from the family of turrid that in the western Pacific Ocean is widespread and polychaete (Polychaeta) eats.
features
The spindle-shaped snail shell of Turris babylonia , which does not have more than 12 whorls, reaches a length of about 6 to 10 cm, often 7 cm in length, in adult snails. The whorls have several spirally running ribs, one of which is thick, making the whorls appear angled. Raised lines run between the ribs. The surface of the shell is whitish with large, brown or nearly black spots on the ribs.
distribution and habitat
Turris babylonia is distributed in the Indo-Pacific from India via Indonesia to Melanesia and the Philippines . It can also be found off Mauritius and the Mascarene Islands , on the Solomon Islands , Papua New Guinea and Timor . It lives below the intertidal zone on rocks and sand, but preferably on soft ground.
Development cycle
Like all sea snails, Turris babylonia is separate from the sexes. The embryos develop in a brief trochophora stage into freely swimming, plankton- eating Veliger larvae, which sink down at the end of the pelagic phase and metamorphose into crawling snails .
nutrition
Turris babylonia feeds on Vielborstern (Polychaeta) that they with their toxic, with a poison gland associated Radulazähnen stands.
literature
- George Washington Tryon: Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species , vol. VI; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1884. P [leurotoma] babylonia Linn., P. 162.
Web links
- Fischhaus Zepkow: Family Turridae - slug tower snails
- Turridae. From: JM Poutiers: Gastropods . In: Kent E. Carpenter, Volker H. Niem (Eds.): FAO Species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 1: Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1998. pp. 629-631, here p. 631.
- Hardy's Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods: Turris babylonia
- Discover Life: Turris babylonia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ashley Chadwick, Jason S. Biggs: Turris babylonia Linnaeus, 1758 - Tower of Babel ( Memento of August 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). The Cone Snail - Exploring Cone Snails and Science, 2010.