Gemmula amabilis

Gemmula amabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Gemmula amabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. amabilis
Binomial name
Gemmula amabilis
(Weinkauff, 1875)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma amabilis Weinkauff, 1875 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 40 mm.

The pale yellowish-brown, fusiform shell is rather solid. It is spirally girdled with sutures sculpted with incremental striae. The first cingulum (the spiral ornamentation) is distinctly nodose. The carina (the keel-like structure) is produced, covered with white nodules. The conical spire has an acute apex and shows eleven carinated whorls. The evanescent suture is oblique; the last one is convex. The siphonal canal is narrow and long. The aperture is pear-shaped. It is marginally and internally ribbed. The outer lip is produced below. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.