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Gemmula damperierana

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Gemmula damperierana
Shell of Gemmula damperierana
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. damperierana
Binomial name
Gemmula damperierana
Powell, 1964

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

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Western Australia, the Philippines and in the South China Sea.

References

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  • Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
  • Kosuge, S. (1988) Report on the family Turridae collected along the North-western Coast of Australia (Gastropoda) (3) (Plate 47; text-figs. 1-15). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology Tokyo, 2 (7), 118–123.
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • 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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