Kermia cavernosa
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| Kermia cavernosa | |
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| Shell of Kermia cavernosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Kermia |
| Species: | K. cavernosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Kermia cavernosa (Reeve, 1845)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Kermia cavernosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The length of the shell attains 9 – 10 mm.
The shell is narrowly shouldered. The ribs are oblique, rather narrow. The shell is white, the shoulder light chestnut, with sometimes a few chestnut spots on the body whorl.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia and in the Persian Gulf and Fiji Islands
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Kermia cavernosa (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759408 on 2019-07-15
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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- Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1845, p. 118
External links
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- Li B.-Q. [Baoquan] & Li X.-Z. [Xinzheng] (2014) Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History 48(17-18): 999-1025
- Gastropods.com: Clathurella cavernosa
- J.C. Melvill (1917), A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1914; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. 12, 1917 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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