Varicospira cancellata


Varicospira cancellata, common name the cancellated beak shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rostellariidae, the true conchs.

Description

the length of the shell attains 36 mm.
The whorls are cancellated, occasionally varicose. The siphonal canal is produced upon the spire, which it ascends in a curved line. The interior of the outer lip is dentate. The color of the shell is pale yellowish brown, indistinctly banded with pale chestnut.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off India, in the Andaman Sea, Thailand and Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia; off Taiwan, the China Seas, Solomon Islands, off Papua New Guinea and Australia