''Heteroturris gemmuloides'' 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 Borsoniidae
Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.o ...
.
[WoRMS (2015). Heteroturris gemmuloides Sysoev, 1997. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434011 on 2016-03-10]
Description
The length of the shell attains 40.4 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Eastern
Indonesia.
References
* Sysoev, Alexander. ''Mollusca Gastropoda: new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia''. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 1997.
External links
*
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308MNHN, Paris: ''Heteroturris gemmuloides'' (holotype)*
gemmuloides
Gastropods described in 1997
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