Gemmula amabilis

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|synonyms = Pleurotoma amabilis Weinkauff, 1875 (original combination)

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Gemmula amabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.{{WRMS species|217101|Gemmula amabilis }}

Description

The length of the shell attains 40 mm.

The pale yellowish-brown, fusiform shell is rather solid. It is spirally girdled with sutures sculpted with incremental striae. The first cingulum (the spiral ornamentation) is distinctly nodose. The carina (the keel-like structure) is produced, covered with white nodules. The conical spire has an acute apex and shows eleven carinated whorls. The evanescent suture is oblique; the last one is convex. The siphonal canal is narrow and long. The aperture is pear-shaped. It is marginally and internally ribbed. The outer lip is produced below. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27002925 Weinkauff H.C. (1875). Ueber eine kritische Gruppe des Genus Pleurotoma Lam. sensu stricto. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 2: 285-292, pl. 9]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

References

External links

[http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_18924.shtml Gastropods.com: Gemmula (Gemmula) amabilis]
[http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295].

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