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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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyTurbinidae
Habitatmarine
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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
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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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