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Pour les francophiles







Gem Centre Sea Shell

Author : Michel Balleton


Terebra textilis Hinds, 1844

Récoltée à l'extérieur du récif barrière de Tahiti enfouie dans une bande de sable par 25 mètres de fond, cette térèbre au test blanc crème à rosé est peu commune dans nos eaux.
Son test a une
bande sous suturale formée par une ligne spirale de profonds pointillés. De fines lignes spirales apparaissent entre les côtes axiales.

L'ouverture est allongée et possède un callus pariétal bien net. L'animal est de couleur blanc crème et possède un fin opercule brun rouge.

Taille du spécimen illustré : 40mm

Collected outside of the Tahitian reef, burrowed in a sandy band in 25 meters of water, this auger with cream-white to pinkish color is uncommon in our waters.

Its pattern has a subsutural band made of a deep punctations spiral line. Fine spiral lines appear between axial ribs. The aperture is elongated and has a distinct parietal callus.

The animal has a cream-white color with a thin brown-red operculum.

Size of the displayed specimen : 40mm


40mm

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