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Kermia producta

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Kermia producta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Kermia
Species:
K. producta
Binomial name
Kermia producta
(Pease, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella producta Pease, 1860
  • Clathurina foraminata var. pyrgodea Melvill, 1917
  • Clathurina pyrgodea Melvill, 1917
  • Defrancia mauritiana G. B. Sowerby III, 1893
  • Kermia pyrgodea (Melvill, 1917)
  • Philbertia producta (Pease, 1860)

Kermia producta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 17 mm.

(Original description) The fusiformly elongate shell is longitudinally ribbed and finely striated transversely. The whorls are convex. The suture is impressed. The aperture is oval. The outer lip is denticulated. The siphonal canal is short. The colour of the shell is yellowish-brown. A darker band of the same colour appears on each whorl.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii; also off South Africa

References

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  1. ^ a b Kermia producta (Pease, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ Pease, W. Harper (1860). "Descriptions of New Species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands (Part II.)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 143. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1860.tb00359.x.
  • Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus Kermia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. African Invertebrates. 50(2): 217–236.
  • Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
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