Turbonilla lactea
Species of gastropod
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Turbonilla lactea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1][2][3][4][5]
| Turbonilla lactea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Turbonilla |
| Species: | T. lactea |
| Binomial name | |
| Turbonilla lactea (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 8 mm. The shell consists of almost straight-sided whorls with deep, flat sutures. Its shell, marked with "thick, flat, slightly sinuous, oblique costae" that are "indistinct on the first whorl" and prominent thereafter, has a milky-white colour, on which the Turbonilla lactea species name is based.[6][7]
Distribution
This species occurs in the following locations:[1]
- Atlantic Europe
- Azores Exclusive Economic Zone
- Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
- British Isles
- Canary Islands
- Cape Verde
- Dorset
- European waters (ERMS scope)
- Goote Bank
- Greek Exclusive Economic Zone
- Irish Exclusive economic Zone
- Mediterranean Sea
- Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone
- São Tomé and Príncipe Exclusive Economic Zone
- Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone
- United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone
- Wimereux