Gemmula lululimi

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

Gemmula lululimi
Shell of Gemmula lululimi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Gemmula
Species:
G. lululimi
Binomial name
Gemmula lululimi
Olivera, 1999
Synonyms[1]

Turris munizi Vera-Pelaez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000 (declared junior synonym of Gemmula lululimi by First Reviser's choice by Kilburn et al. (2012))

Description

The length of the shell varies between 75 mm and 90.5 mm. The shell is characterised by its white body with continuous brown ridges, with a rather short siphonal canal and a strongly crenulated sinus cord.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines; also off Papua New Guinea and southwest Japan.

References

  • Vera-Pelaez J.L., Vega-Luz R. & Lozano-Francisco M.C. (2000) Five new species of the genus Turris Roding, 1798 (Gastropoda; Turridae; Turrinae) of the Philippines and one new species of the Southern Indo-Pacific. Malakos [Revista de la Asociacion Malacologica Andaluza], Monografia 2: 1-29.



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