Kermia chichijimana

Kermia chichijimana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Kermia chichijimana
Original image of a shell of Kermia chichijimana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Kermia
Species:
K. chichijimana
Binomial name
Kermia chichijimana
(Pilsbry, 1904)
Synonyms[1]

Clathurella chichijimana Pilsbry, 1904

This species is also considered a synonym of Pseudodaphnella barnardi (Brazier, 1876)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.7 mm.

(Original description) The small, solid shell has a fusiform shape. It is gray-white with five black-brown and the same number of white longitudinal stripes on the ribs, sometimes continuous, sometimes dislocated. The sculpture consists of 10 strong longitudinal ribs crossed by spiral threads which swell into tubercles on the ribs, and are 9 or 10 in number on the body whorl. The shell contains 7 whorls, the first 2½ yellow, rounded, forming a trochiform protoconch, sculptured with vertical riblets decussated by delicate, obliquely forward-descending striae. The junction of the protoconch and the sculptured shell is very oblique and sharply defined. The aperture is narrow, with a deep sinus above. The outer lip contains four small teeth within. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References
  1. Kermia chichijimana (Pilsbry, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. Pilsbry, Henry A., Sc.D. New Japanese Marine Mollusca: Gastropoda (Plates I-VI); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 56 (1904) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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