Gemmula lisajoni

Species of gastropod

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

Gemmula (Gemmula) lisajoni Olivera, 1999

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 35 mm. It has a brown spire with a distinctive purplish-violet siphonal canal.

It is related to Gemmula ambara Olivera et al., 2008 and Gemmula rosario Shikama, 1977 [2]

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

  1. ^ a b Gemmula lisajoni Olivera, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Olivera, Baldomero M., David R. Hillyard, and Maren Watkins. "A new species of Gemmula, Weinkauff 1875; Evidence of two clades of Philippine species in the genus Gemmula." Philipp Sci Lett 11 (2008): 11-15.
  • Olivera BM. The subfamily Turrinae in the Philippines: the genus Turris (Röding, 1798). Phil J Sci 1999; 128: 295-318
  • Gastropods.com: Gemmula (Gemmula) lisajoni
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
Taxon identifiers
Gemmula lisajoni


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