Trochia cingulata

Trochia cingulata
	Several shells of Trochia cingulata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Trochia
Species:	T. cingulata
Binomial name
	Trochia cingulata; (Linnaeus, 1771)
Synonyms
	Buccinum cingulatum Linnaeus, 1771 (original combination); Buccinum scala Gmelin, 1791; Buccinum trochlea Bruguiere, 1789; Nucella cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771); Purpura cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771); Purpura spiralis Reeve, 1846; Pyrum ergatum Humphrey, G., 1797; Stramonita cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771); Thais cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771);

Trochia cingulata, common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Namibia and the West Coast of South Africa.^[1]

Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. pp. 176–270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp