Tegula brunnea Brown Tegula, Brown Turban Snail

Tegula brunnea wird umgangssprachlich als Braune Tegula bezeichnet.

Douglas Mason, USA

Chlorostoma brunnea 3 (HMB) 2008

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lexID:: 11502
AphiaID:: 534187

Scientific:: Tegula brunnea
German:: Braune Tegula, Braune Turboschnecke
English:: Brown Tegula, Brown Turban Snail

Category:: Lumache

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Trochida (Order) > Tegulidae (Family) > Tegula (Genus) > brunnea (Species)
Initial determination:: (Philippi, ), 1849

Occurrence:: Eastern Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, USA
Marine Zone:: Intertidal (Eulittoral), intertidal zone between the high and low tide lines characterized by the alternation of low and high tide down to 15 meters
Sea depth:: Meter
Habitats:: Coastal waters, Intertidal zone, Tidal Zone, Kelp forests, Rocky shores, Rock coasts, Rocky, hard seabeds, Seawater, Sea water
Size:: 0.39" - 1.18" (1,9cm - 3,5cm)
Temperature:: 8,8 °F - 66.2 °F (8,8°C - 19°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder, Herbivorous
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Tegula atra
Ziegelschnecke
Tegula aureotincta
Tegula brunnea
Braune Tegula, Braune Turboschnecke
Tegula eiseni
Tegula euryomphala
Tegula excavata
Tegula fasciata
Tegula funebralis
Schwarze Turbanschnecke, Schwarze Tegula
Tegula gallina
Gesprenkelte Tegula, Gesprenkelte Turbanschnecke
Tegula gruneri
Tegula hotessieriana
Tegula ignota
Tegula ligulata
Tegula lividomaculata
Tegula luctuosa
Tegula mariana
Tegula montereyi
Monterey Tegula
Tegula patagonica
Tegula pellisserpentis
Tegula pfeifferi
Tegula pulligo
Tegula puntagordana
Tegula quadricostata
Tegula regina
Tegula rugosa
Tegula tridentata
Tegula viridula

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2018-04-13 19:42:41
Last edit:: 2024-06-21 20:01:29

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Tegula brunnea (Philippi, 1849)

The shell is russet-yellow, brown, orange-colored or deep crimson.This is an Eastern Pacific Ocean species.

Similar to Tegula funebralis und Tegula montereyi .

Synonymised names:
Chlorostoma brunnea (Philippi, 1848)
Trochus brunneus Philippi, 1849 (original combination)