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Scientific Name: Nassaria coromandelica E. A. Smith, 1894
English Name: Indian phos
Local/Bangla Name: Chotogota shamuk (ছোটগোটা শামুক)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Nassariidae
Description:
Shell small, up to 30 mm in height, fusiform, spire high, with smooth and glossy protoconch of 2 whorls, body whorl half of the total height. Aperture narrow, with lirations on the interior, outer lip thickened occasionally with a varix, usually margin not crenulated as in other two species of the genus, columella with a strong parietal plication and two prominent plications on the anterior side, wrinkles on the rest, anterior canal broad but not strongly recurved, posterior canal distinct. Sculptured with narrow axial ribs crossed by spiral cords forming nodules at the cross sections, the surface more nodulose than in the other two species, the interspaces between the strong spiral cords with fine spiral thread. Colour half white or dull brown with white aperture.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s and Nuniarchar in Cox’s Bazar
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.
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