Granigyra pruinosa

Granigyra pruinosa
Shell of Granigyra pruinosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Granigyra
Species:	G. pruinosa
Binomial name
Granigyra pruinosa (Jeffreys, 1883) [1]
Synonyms
Ganesa pruinosaJeffreys 1883 (original combination)

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.

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)

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

External links

• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
• "Granigyra pruinosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.