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genus

Cryptogemma Dall, 1918

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Caenogastropoda »  family Turridae

Distribution

Range — Recent, deep water, 1200-1300 fathoms, Gulf of Panama to Ecuador, and undescribed species from off Hawaii.

Description

Shell small to medium sized, 8-28 mm., broadly fusiform but with a short twisted anterior canal. Weak axial ribs are produced into rounded nodules on a conspicuous peripheral keel. The sinus is at the periphery, rather slight and square-cut at the apex of a broadly open V. Apical whorls unknown. The shell is covered by a greenish-grey periostracum. Operculum oval, with a terminal nucleus. Radula of modified wishbone-type, marginals only, which are long and slender, with the distal limb severed.

Sources

Powell, A.W.B. : The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. 1966.
Author: Jan Delsing

Subordinated taxa

Number of records: 5

species Cryptogemma benthina W. H. Dall, 1908
species Cryptogemma eldorana W. H. Dall, 1908
species Cryptogemma phymatias R. B. Watson, 1885
species Cryptogemma polystephanus W. H. Dall, 1908
species Cryptogemma quentinensis W. H. Dall, 1919

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