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Scientific Name: Rapa rapa (Linnaeus, 1758)
English Name: Papery rapa, soft coral shell, bubble turnip
Local/Bangla Name: Patla hock (পাতলা হুক)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Description:
Shell large, up to 75 mm in height, thin, bulbous, with flat or slightly sunken spire and very expanded body whorl. Aperture moderately wide, constricted anteriorly, outer lip thin and crenulated by the ridges ending on it, columella with callus, which partly obscures the deep. wide open umbilicus, strong fasciole, siphonal canal short and broadly open. Sculptured with rounded spiral ridges that increase in size and widely separated towards anterior end, fine spiral threads in between the ridges on the top and fine axial lamellae at the bottom. Colour uniformly cream.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s island and occasionally in Sonadia island
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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