Mormula
| Mormula | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Heterobranchia |
| Clade: | Euthyneura |
| Clade: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Mormula A. Adams, 1863 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Mormula rissoina A. Adams, 1864 | |
Mormula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]
Description
The thick shell is turreted and shaped like an awl, rissoid, solid, and longitudinally plicate . The aperture is large. The columella is spirally tortuous. The outer lip is thickened within. The margin acute. [4]
Species
Species within the genus Mormula include:[2]
- Mormula chrysozona (Martens, 1880)
- Mormula hirasei Kuroda, 1960
- Mormula macandreae A. Adams, 1870
- Mormula persarum Melvill & Standen, 1903
- Mormula philippiana (Dunker, 1860)
- Mormula pseudorex (Nomura, 1936)
- Mormula rex (Pilsbry, 1904)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Mormula aureocincta Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Pyrgiscus aureocinctus (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
- Mormula excellens G.B. Sowerby III, 1907: synonyum of Turbonilla aulica Dall & Bartsch, 1906
- Mormula humilis (Preston, 1905): synonym of Quirella humilis (Preston, 1905)
- Mormula rissoina A. Adams, 1864: synonym of Turbonilla philippiana Dunker, 1860
- Mormula terebra (A. Adams, 1861): synonym of Chrysallida terebra A. Adams, 1861
References
- ↑ A. Adams, Jour. Linn. Soc., vii, p. 1, 1863,
- 1 2 WoRMS (2010). Mormula A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203962 on 26 August 2012
- ↑ Nomenclator Zoologicus
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 297; 1889
- Adams A. (1863). On the species of Pyramidellinae found in Japan. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 7: 1-6
- Odé H. (1998) Indo-Pacific taxa of turbonillids, excluding those along the Americas. Texas Conchologist 34(2): 33-103
External links
| External identifiers for Mormula | |
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| WoRMS | 203962 |
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