Xenuroturris legitima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Description
The length of the shell attains 72 mm, its diameter 23 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, the Philippines, Vietnam and Australia (Queensland)
References
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. Olivera, B.M. 2002. The gastropod genus Xenuroturris (Iredale, 1929) evaluated and a new turrid Lophiotoma olangoensis described from the Central Philippines. Science Diliman 14(2): 39-49 Kantor, Y.I., Puillandre, N., Olivera, B.M. & Bouchet, P. 2008. Morphological Proxies for Taxonomic Decision in Turrids (Mollusca, Neogastropoda): a Test of the Value of Shelland Radula Characters Using Molecular Data. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 25: 1156-1170
External links
Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31 Powell, A.W.B. (1967) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The subfamily Turrinae concluded. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1, 409–444 Abdelkrim, J.; Aznar-Cormano, L.; Buge, B.; Fedosov, A.; Kantor, Y.; Zaharias, P.; Puillandre, N. (2018). Delimiting species of marine gastropods (Turridae, Conoidea) using RAD sequencing in an integrative taxonomy framework. Molecular Ecology. 27(22): 4591-4611 Tardy, E. & Stahlschmidt, P. (2022). Shallow water turrids of Ile des Pins, New Caledonia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 129(1): 167-219.