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Two views of a shell of Guildfordia yoka | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Genus: | Guildfordia Gray, 1850 |
Type species | |
Trochus triumphans Philippi, 1841 | |
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Guildfordia is a genusofsea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
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.[2]
This marine genus occurs off the Philippines, Indo-China, Indo-Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Indian Ocean, Oceania, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Species within the genus Guildfordia include:
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