Eugemmula monilifera

Eugemmula monilifera
Eugemmula monilifera shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Eugemmula
Species:	E. monilifera
Binomial name
Eugemmula monilifera (Pease, 1860)
Synonyms [1]
Gemmula monilifera(Pease, 1861) Gemmula (Gemmula) monilifera(Pease, 1861) Pleurotoma (Gemmula) monilifera(Pease, 1861) Turris aelomitra (Dall, 1952) (misidentification) Turris moniliferaPease, 1860 Turritella monilifera(Pease, 1861)

Eugemmula monilifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 30 mm.

(Original description) The shell is fusiform, turreted, and light brown. Its numerous whorls are encircled by a row of semitransparent, slightly oblong tubercles, disposed in a somewhat imbricated manner. A prominent keel lies between these rows, with a lighter one just below them. The interstices are concave, ornamented with raised striae, and crossed by oblique lines. The body whorl is encircled by raised striae, which are most prominent on its upper part. The aperture is ovate, and the siphonal canal is rather long and slightly recurved. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Durban, South Africa; off Hawaii; off Papua New Guinea and Western Australia

References

1. Eugemmula monilifera (Pease, 1860) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. "ITIS - Report: Gemmula monilifera".
3. Pease, W.H. (1861). "Descriptions of seventeen new species of marine shells, from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of Hugh Cuming". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 398. Retrieved 29 July 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Weinkauff, H.C. 1875. Ueber eine kritische gruppe des genus Pleurotoma Lam. sensu stricto. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 1875: 285–292
• Paetel 1887. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung. I. Die Cephalopoden, Pteropoden und Meeres-Gastropoden. Berlin, Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel. Berlin : Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel pp. 1–16, 1–639.
• Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv
• Tinker (1952), Pacific Sea Shells, p. 46, p1. 1; A handbook of common marine mollusks of Hawaii and the south seas. Tokyo : Tuttle 240 pp.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
• Kosuge, S. 1990. Report on the family Turridae collected along the north-western coast of Australia. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 2(9): 149–156, pls 54, 55
• Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp
• Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies. eyae032: 1-40.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.