Granigyra pruinosa

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Granigyra pruinosa
Granigyra pruinosa (10.5852-ejt.2021.785.1605) Figure 15 (cropped).png
Shell of Granigyra pruinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Seguenzioidea (unassigned)
Genus:
Granigyra
Species:
G. pruinosa
Binomial name
Granigyra pruinosa
(Jeffreys, 1883) [1]
Synonyms

Ganesa pruinosaJeffreys 1883 (original combination)

Contents

Granigyra pruinosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea. [2]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 2.5 mm and 6.2 mm. The small, semitransparent shell is narrowly rimate. It is frosted by minute numerous white tubercles, which are partly embedded in the substance of the shell,. On one specimen there are slight spiral lines below the deep suture. The four whorls are swollen and rapidly increasing in size. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters off Ireland, the Bay of Biscay and Portugal.

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References

  1. ↑ Jeffreys J. G., 1878–1885: On the mollusca procured during the H. M. S. "Lightning" and "Porcupine" expedition; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part 1 (1878): 393–416 pl. 22–23. Part 2 (1879): 553–588 pl. 45–46 [ottobre 1879]. Part 3 (1881): 693–724 pl. 61. Part 4 (1881): 922–952 pl. 70–71 [1882]. Part 5 (1882): 656–687 pl. 49–50 [1883]. Part 6 (1883): 88–115 pl. 19–20. Part 7 (1884): 111–149 pl. 9–10. Part 8 (1884): 341–372 pl. 26–28. Part 9 (1885): 27–63 pl. 4–6
  2. ↑ Granigyra pruinosa (Jeffreys, 1883) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 26 March 2012.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cyclostrema (Ganesa) pruinosa)
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