Gemmuloborsonia moosai

Gemmuloborsonia moosai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae.[1][2]

Gemmuloborsonia moosai
Shell of Gemmuloborsonia moosai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmuloborsonia
Species:
G. moosai
Binomial name
Gemmuloborsonia moosai
Sysoev & Bouchet, 1996

Description

The length of the shell attains 32.6 mm, its diameter 9.8 mm. it is very similar to Gemmuloborsonia didyma

Distribution

This species occurs in the Arafura Sea, Indonesia and the Mozambique Channel.

References

  1. Gemmuloborsonia moosai Sysoev & Bouchet, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 August 2011.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

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