Gymnobela blakeana

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Gymnobela blakeana
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Original image of a shell of Gymnobela blakeana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Gymnobela
Species:
G. blakeana
Binomial name
Gymnobela blakeana
(Dall, 1881)
Synonyms [1]
  • Gymnobela brevisVerrill, 1885
  • Pleurotoma (Bela) blakeanaDall, 1881
  • Pleurotomella (Gymnobela) blakeana(Dall, 1889)

Gymnobela blakeana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]

Contents

Subspecies: Gymnobela blakeana agria(Dall, 1889) (synonym: Pleurotomella (Gymnobela) blakeana agriaDall, 1889)

Description

(Original description) The shell is very variable in proportions and somewhat variable in sculpture. It is thin, white, with a dark protoconch, a rather acute spire, a short columella and rather wide aperture . The sculpture consists of revolving threads, two stronger ones immediately in front of the suture, which are nodulated at their intersection with the ribs with sixteen to eighteen transverse ribs which are strongest near the suture and fade away toward the siphonal canal. The notch is subobsolete. The shell shows the waxy polish characteristic of so many abyssal forms. [2]

Distribution

G. blakeana can be found in Atlantic and Caribbean waters, ranging from the coast of Massachusetts south to the Yucatan. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gymnobela blakeana (Dall, 1881) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 March 2010.
  2. ↑ Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v 9-11 (1881-1885) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 668.
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