Gemmula cosmoi

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

Gemmula cosmoi
Shell of Gemmula cosmoi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. cosmoi
Binomial name
Gemmula cosmoi
(Sykes, 1930)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gemmula congener cosmoi (Sykes, 1930)
  • Gemmula (Gemmula) cosmoi (Sykes, 1930)
  • Turris cosmoi Sykes, 1930

Description

The 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

This marine species occurs from East Africa to Japan; in the East China Sea, South China Sea and Nansha Islands; off the Philippines.

References
  1. Gemmula cosmoi (Sykes, 1930). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. W. Webb, A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the World
  • 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.
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