Xenuroturris emmae

Xenuroturris emmae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Xenuroturris
Species:	X. emmae
Binomial name
Xenuroturris emmae Bozzetti, 1993

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

Taxonomy

Due to a very different appearance from other members of the Xenuroturris (orange-brown-cultured shell with irregular positions of lighter spots), Kantor et al. 2024 state that attribution of the species to Xenuroturris is "only conditional[...]" until more data is acquired. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Somalia.

References

1. Xenuroturris emmae Bozzetti, 1993 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Kantor et al. 2024, p. 13.

Sources

• Bozzetti, L. (1994). Description of two new species of the genera Xenuroturris Iredale and Inquisitor from north-western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda Turridae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 3(2): 24-27.
• Kantor, Yuri; Bouchet, Philippe; Fedosov, Alexander; Puillandre, Nicolas; Zaharias, Paul (2024). "Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90 (5): eyae032. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyae032.

External links

• Conchology.be: image