Harpulina lapponica

Harpulina lapponica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Harpulina lapponica
Specimens of Harpulina lapponica lapponica at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Volutinae
Genus:
Harpulina
Species:
H. lapponica
Binomial name
Harpulina lapponica
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms[1]
  • Harpulina japonica Shikama & Horikoshi, 1963
  • Harpulina lapponica lapponica (Linnaeus, 1767)ยท accepted, alternate representation
  • Voluta indica Sowerby I, 1845
  • Voluta interpuncta Reeve, 1849
  • Voluta interpuncta undata M. Smith, 1942
  • Voluta lapponica Linnaeus, 1767

Subspecies: Harpulina lapponica loroisi (Valenciennes, 1863)

Description

Distribution

This species is native to the Indian Ocean, particularly Sri Lanka.[1] Despite the specific epithet lapponica, it is not native to Lapland.

gollark: * tablemetatables
gollark: <@509348730156220427> It's entirely possible to do well-structured code with less boilerplate than OOP, especially with less than your hand-rolled confusing system.
gollark: I think that's worse, honestly.
gollark: You changed a false to true and a true to false.
gollark: Oh, right.

References
  1. Harpulina lapponica (Linnaeus, 1767). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.