Oliveragemmula cosmoi

Oliveragemmula cosmoi
Shell of Oliveragemmula cosmoi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Oliveragemmula
Species:	O. cosmoi
Binomial name
Oliveragemmula cosmoi (Sykes, 1930)
Synonyms [1]
Gemmula congener cosmoi(Sykes, 1930) Gemmula (Gemmula) cosmoi(Sykes, 1930) Gemmula cosmoi(Sykes, 1930) superseded combination Turris cosmoiSykes, 1930

Oliveragemmula cosmoi 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 45 mm and 60 mm.

An almost uncolored to slightly brown shell. It shows a row of tiny nodules on the keel of the whorls. The suture has a row of pointed nodules. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from East Africa to Japan; in the East China Sea, South China Sea and Nansha Islands; off the Philippines.

References

1. Oliveragemmula cosmoi (Sykes, 1930) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. W. Webb, A catalog of recent Mollusca from all parts of the World

• Sykes, E. R. (1930). On a new species of Turris from Japan. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 19: 82
• Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
• Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
• 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.
• 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

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.