Kermia netrodes | |
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Original image of a shell of Kermia netrodes | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Kermia |
Species: | K. netrodes
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Binomial name | |
Kermia netrodes (Melvill, 1917)
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Synonyms | |
Clathurina netrodes Melvill, 1917 |
Kermia netrodes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.
The long shell has an attenuate shape. It is straw-colored to brown colored with sparse brownish spiral beneath the sutures and below the periphery at the base of the shell. It contains 10 whorls of which 3 in the protoconch. The second and the third whorl are cancellate. The subsequent whorls contains few, rounded ribs, crossed everywhere by 3 - 4 rough, spiral lirae; nine ribs and in the body whorl. The ovate-shaped aperture is narrow. The sinus is not deep. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The columella is rather straight. The siphonal canal is not produced. [1]
This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.
Kermia netrodes | |
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Original image of a shell of Kermia netrodes | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Kermia |
Species: | K. netrodes
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Binomial name | |
Kermia netrodes (Melvill, 1917)
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Synonyms | |
Clathurina netrodes Melvill, 1917 |
Kermia netrodes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.
The long shell has an attenuate shape. It is straw-colored to brown colored with sparse brownish spiral beneath the sutures and below the periphery at the base of the shell. It contains 10 whorls of which 3 in the protoconch. The second and the third whorl are cancellate. The subsequent whorls contains few, rounded ribs, crossed everywhere by 3 - 4 rough, spiral lirae; nine ribs and in the body whorl. The ovate-shaped aperture is narrow. The sinus is not deep. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The columella is rather straight. The siphonal canal is not produced. [1]
This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.