ID: 143836
pID: 143829
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Jiří Novák
Created: 2006-01-28 17:12:17 - User Jiří Novák
Last change: 2013-12-22 20:55:16 - User Ondřej Zicha
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id143836/ Text function: [[t:143836;<em>Terebra dimidiata</em>]]
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id143836/"><em>Terebra dimidiata</em></a>
Size
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 55995
Text Type: 2
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-16 01:14:58 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Shell to 166 mm
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 55996
Text Type: 3
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-16 01:16:39 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea through the tropical Indo-Pacific to Polynesia and Hawaii.
Description
Author: Jan Delsing, Bratcher & Cernohorsky
Text ID: 55994
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-16 01:14:33 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
Shell color yellow or pinkish orange with ivory flammules, or ivory with pinkish orange subsutural band and squarish spots; outline of whorls flat with slightly indented subsutural band; protoconch of 3 1/2 conical whorls; subsutural band faintly noded on early whorls, flat later, defined by a groove which is punctate early and smooth later; axial ribs numerous, curved, closely spaced on early whorls; later whorls smooth except for subsutural groove; aperture quadrate: columella almost straight.
[Bratcher & Cernohorsky]
Interesting facts
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 55997
Text Type: 20
Page: 0
Created: 2009-09-16 01:17:29 - User Jan Delsing
Language: EN
This species has neither radula nor poison gland (Rudman, 1969). It exhibits two distinct color patterns, one almost the reverse of the other, though the sculpture and shape remain constant.
Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Terebra dimidiata (LINNÉ, 1758)] Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013
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