Argobuccinum tumidum

Taxobox
name = "Argobuccinum tumidum"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
superfamilia = Tonnoidea
familia = Ranellidae
subfamilia = Ranellinae
genus = "Argobuccinum"
species = "A. tumidum"
binomial = "Argobuccinum tumidum"
binomial_authority = (Dunker, 1862)

"Argobuccinum tumidum" is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, the tritons.

Distribution

This species is endemic to south west Australia, and New Zealand including the Chatham Islands and the sub-Antarctic islands.

Habitat

This triton is found from low-tidal rocks to depths of about 140 m.

hell description

The large swollen shell has prominent varices.

Coloration of the shell is reddish-brown, with darker spirals, under a thick yellowish-olive periostracum. The aperture is glossy white.

The shell height is up to 114 mm, and the width is up to 79 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1