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Ptychobela nodulosa

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ14226958 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ptychobela nodulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 34 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Australia, Australia, and Western India.

References

Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ptychobela nodulosa” as species of mollusc. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ptychobela, nodulosa and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1791—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ptychobela, nodulosa and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14226958. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1791.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ptychobela nodulosa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.