Gourmya gourmyi, common name the gourmya cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.[1]
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| Species: | G. gourmyi
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| Gourmya gourmyi (Crosse, 1861)
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Description
editThe shell size varies between 30 mm and 75 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along New Caledonia and the New Hebrides.
References
edit- ^ Gourmya gourmyi (Crosse, 1861). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 February 2011.
External links
edit- Houbrick R. S. (1981). "Anatomy and systematics of Gourmya gourmyi (Prosobranchia: Cerithiidae), a Tethyan relict from the southwest Pacific". The Nautilus 95(1): 2–11.
- "Gourmya gourmyi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 8 February 2011.