Kilburnigemmula gemmulina

Kilburnigemmula gemmulina
Shell of Kilburnigemmula gemmulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Kilburnigemmula
Species:	K. gemmulina
Binomial name
Kilburnigemmula gemmulina (Martens, 1902)
Synonyms [1]
Gemmula gemmulina(E. von Martens, 1902) superseded combination Gemmula (Gemmula) gemmulina(Martens, 1902à Pleurotoma gemmulinaMartens, 1902

Kilburnigemmula gemmulina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 11.1 mm and 24.8 mm.

Shell of Kilburnigemmula gemmulina

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Sumatra, Indonesia; off the Philippines and in the South China Sea.

References

1. Kilburnigemmula gemmulina (Martens, 1902) . 29 July 2025 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Powell, A.W.B. (1964) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1, 227–346
• Li B. [Baoquan] & Li X. [Xinzheng]. (2008). Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas. Zootaxa. 1778: 1-25.
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies. eyae032: 1-40.

External links

• Martens, E. von. (1902). Einige neue Arten von Meer-Conchylien aus den Sammlungen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition unter der Leitung von Prof. Carl Chun, 1898–99. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. (1902): 237-244.
• Gastropods.com: Gemmula (Gemmula) gemmulina
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.