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

Cryptogemma cornea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Cryptogemma
Species:
C. cornea
Binomial name
Cryptogemma cornea
(Okutani, 1966)
Synonyms[1]

Taranis corneus Okutani, 1966

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

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  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.
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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.