Kermia netrodes

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Kermia netrodes
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Original image of a shell of Kermia netrodes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Kermia
Species:
K. netrodes
Binomial name
Kermia netrodes
(Melvill, 1917)
Synonyms

Clathurina netrodesMelvill, 1917

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

The long shell has an attenuate shape. It is straw-colored to brown colored with sparse brownish spiral beneath the sutures and below the periphery at the base of the shell. It contains 10 whorls of which 3 in the protoconch. The second and the third whorl are cancellate. The subsequent whorls contains few, rounded ribs, crossed everywhere by 3 - 4 rough, spiral lirae; nine ribs and in the body whorl. The ovate-shaped aperture is narrow. The sinus is not deep. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The columella is rather straight. The siphonal canal is not produced. [1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

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