| Gemmula lululimi | |
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| Shell of Gemmula lululimi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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] | |
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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)) | |
Gemmula lululimi 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 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
- 1 2 Gemmula lululimi Olivera, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- 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.
External links
- Kilburn, Richard N., Alexander E. Fedosov, and Baldomero M. Olivera. "Revision of the genus Turris (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species." Zootaxa 3244.1 (2012): 1
- Gastropods.com: Gemmula (Gemmula - speciosa group) lululimi
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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