Terebralia sulcata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.[1]
Distribution
Malaysia,[2] Vietnam, Red Sea, Madagascar.
Description
Terebralia sulcata shell.
Ecology
Habitat of
Terebralia sulctata are mangroves.
Terebralia sulctata is a predominantly mangrove-associated species.[3]
References
- Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. (2008) Mudwhelks and mangroves: the evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 680-699
- Lozouet P. & Plaziat J.C. (2008) Mangrove environments and molluscs. Abatan River, Bohol and Panglao Islands, central Philippines. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 160 pp
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
- Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423. page(s): 195, pl. 14, fig. 39
- Yamanaka, T.; Mizota, C. (2001). Sulfur Nutrition of Gastropods and Bivalves Relevant to the Mangrove Forests: A Case Study from Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 60 (1-2): 71-78
