Powelligemmula rarimaculata

Powelligemmula rarimaculata
Shell of Powelligemmula rarimaculata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Powelligemmula
Species:	P. rarimaculata
Binomial name
Powelligemmula rarimaculata (Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971)
Synonyms [1]
Gemmula (Gemmula) rarimaculataKuroda and Oyama, 1971 Gemmula rarimaculataKuroda & Oyama, 1971 superseded combination

Powelligemmula rarimaculata 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 17 mm and 27 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean; in the Solomon Sea; off Japan; in the South China Sea; off the Fiji Islands, Queensland, Western Australia and the Philippines.

References

1. Powelligemmula rarimaculata (Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971) . 29 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The sea shells of Sagami Bay, collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1-741 (Japanese text), 1-489 (English text), 1-51 (Index), pls 1-121
• Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp.
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
• 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.
• 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.

External links

• Powell, A.W.B. (1967). "The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a. The subfamily Turrinae concluded". Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 1: 24.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.