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Guildfordia
Sign in to saveGuildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Guildfordia is referenced by 12 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Philippines and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Gastropod genera, Gastropod genera without authority reference and Guildfordia.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyTurbinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 32
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Turbinidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, UCMP, USNM, AM, YPM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Iles Salomon, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Turbinidae
- Image
- Guildfordia yoka 7a.jpg
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- Guildfordia
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- Species
- References
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Guildfordia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
==Description== The imperforate shell is wheel-shaped. It is low-conic and granulose above, convex below. The periphery is armed with long slender radiating spines, which are concealed at the sutures. The operculum is flat, with a subobsolete arcuate rib outside. The central tooth of the radula has no cusps.
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