''Gemmula kieneri'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Turridae
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
, the turrids.
Its mineralized tissue is made up of calcium carbonate. One may find it in a water depth of 50m (min) to 346m (max).
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;Subspecies:
* † ''Gemmula kieneri ryuktjuensis'' MacNeil, 1960
* † ''Gemmula kieneri woodwardi'' (Martin, 1884)
Description
The length of this robust, fusiform shell varies between 26.2 mm and 73 mm.
AWB Powell (1964) pointed out that this species is very similar to '' Gemmula speciosa'' (Reeve, 1842)
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea, in the East China Sea
The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...
and South China Sea, Nansha Islands
The Spratly Islands ( fil, Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; zh, c=南沙群島/南沙群岛, s=, t=, p=Nánshā Qúndǎo; Malay, id, Kepulauan Spratly; vi, Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. Composed ...
; off Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
and the Philippines; off Queensland, Australia.
References
* Doumet, E. (1840) ''Pleurotoma in Mollusques''. Magasin de Zoologie. Series II year II: pl. 10+2 pp; pl. 11+ 2 pp
* Reeve, L.A. (1843-46) ''Monograph of the Genus Pleurotoma.'' Conchologia Iconica, vol. 1, Pls. I –XL
* Powell, A.W.B. (1964) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1, 227–346
* Powell, A.W.B. 1968. ''The turrid shellfish of Australian waters''. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6
* Ladd, H.S. 1982. ''Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae through Terebridae)''. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 1171: i-iv, pls 1-20
* Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. ''Shells of the Philippines''. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls.
* Wilson, B. 1994. ''Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods''. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
* Tucker, J.K. 2004. ''Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682: 1–1295
* 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.
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* Liu, J.Y. uiyu(ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
* Li B. aoquan& Li X. inzheng (2008). Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas. Zootaxa. 1778: 1-25.
External links
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kieneri
Gastropods described in 1840
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