| Kermia catharia | |
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| Original image of a shell of Kermia catharia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Kermia |
| Species: | K. catharia |
| Binomial name | |
| Kermia catharia (Melvill, 1917) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Clathurina cathariaMelvill, 1917 | |
Kermia catharia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
The small delicate, white shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains 8 whorls of which 2½ in the protoconch, with a pale straw color, globose and microscopically cancellate ribs. The subsequent whorls contains thick, rounded ribs, crossed everywhere by rough, spiral lirae; nine ribs and nine lirae in the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The columella is oblique. The siphonal canal is recurved. [2]
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
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