Cryptogemma aethiopica

Species of gastropod

Cryptogemma aethiopica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Cryptogemma aethiopica
Shell of Cryptogemma aethiopica (holotype at Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Cryptogemma
Species:
C. aethiopica
Binomial name
Cryptogemma aethiopica
(Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gemmula (Pinguigemmula) thielei Finlay, 1930
  • Gemmula aethiopica (Thiele, 1925)
  • Gemmula luzonica (Powell, 1964)
  • Gemmula thielei Finlay, 1930
  • Pinguigemmula luzonica Powell, 1964
  • Pinguigemmula okinavensis MacNeil, 1961
  • Pinguigemmula philippinensis Powell, 1964
  • Pinguigemmula thielei Powell 1964
  • Pleurotoma aethiopica Thiele, 1925
  • Pleurotoma fusiformis Thiele, 1925
  • Pleurotoma (Gemmula) aethiopica Thiele, 1925 (basionym)
  • Pleurotoma (Gemmula) fusiformis Thiele, 1925 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma fusiformis J.de C. Sowerby, 1823; Gemmula thielei is a replacement name)
  • Pleurotoma tricincta K. Martin, 1935

Description

The length of the shell attains 42.2 mm, its diameter 16.9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia and Madagascar; also in the Central Indo-Pacific at depths between 400 m to 850 m: in the South China Sea; off Sumatra, Indonesia.

References

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cryptogemma aethiopica (Thiele, 1925). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1425516 on 2020-10-12

External links

  • Zaharias P., Kantor Y.I., Fedosov A.E., Criscione F., Hallan A., Kano Y., Bardin J. & Puillandre N. (2020). Just the once will not hurt: DNA suggests species lumping over two oceans in deep-sea snails (Cryptogemma). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa010/5802562
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Finlay H.J. (1930). Invalid molluscan names. No. 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 61: 37-48Error: "Q96254091" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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