Gemmula damperierana

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

Gemmula damperierana
Shell of Gemmula damperierana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. damperierana
Binomial name
Gemmula damperierana
Powell, 1964

Description

The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Australia, the Philippines and in the South China Sea.

References

  • Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
  • Kosuge, S. (1988) Report on the family Turridae collected along the North-western Coast of Australia (Gastropoda) (3) (Plate 47; text-figs. 1-15). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology Tokyo, 2 (7), 118–123.
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
  • Li B. [Baoquan] & Li X. [Xinzheng]. (2008). Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas. Zootaxa. 1778: 1-25.


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