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Turricula profundorum

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3720767 ↗
Source-derived summary

Turricula profundorum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

Description

The length of the shell is around 34 mm, with a diameter 12 mm.

The white shell has a fusiform shape. The length of the narrow aperture equals almost half of the length of the shell. The labral sinus is broad, rather deep and situated at the suture. The suture is adpressed.

It is related to and differs from Turricula navarchus in the strongly developed, but relatively sparse peripheral nodes.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean in deep water off the Maldives.

References

E. A. Smith (1896), Ann. & Mag.

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“Turricula profundorum” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Turricula, profundorum and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3720767. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1896.

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This entry incorporates text from “Turricula profundorum” 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.