Gemmula cosmoi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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| Shell of Gemmula cosmoi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Gemmula |
| Species: | G. cosmoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Gemmula cosmoi (Sykes, 1930)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 60 mm.
An almost uncolored to slightly brown shell. It shows a row of tiny nodules on the keel of the whorls. The suture has a row of pointed nodules. [2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs from East Africa to Japan; in the East China Sea, South China Sea and Nansha Islands; off the Philippines.
References
edit- Sykes, E. R. (1930). On a new species of Turris from Japan. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 19: 82
- Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
- Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.
- 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.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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