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Gemmula interpolata A. W. B. Powell, 1969

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

Size

Length, 25 mm; diameter, 9 mm
Source: Kay, E.A. Hawaiian Marine Shells. 1979.

Description

Shell: broadly fusiform, anterior canal long, 'almost straight; peripheral carina noded; ivory-white, internodes of peripheral carina red-brown. Spire: slightly less than half the length of the aperture and siphonal canal; protoconch narrowly conical, of three and one-half dark brown whorls, the apical whorls smooth, the abapical whorl axially costate; teleoconch of about eight whorls. Sculpture: subsutural fold prominent, narrow-crested, smooth; shoulder slope straight, descending with crisp, smooth spiral cords; peripheral carina low-set, of two cords noduled by axially fused nodes; last whorl with eight or nine smooth cords and finer threads in the interspaces below the carina. Aperture: sinus deep, U-shaped, apex the width of the peripheral keel.Color: ivory-white sparsely maculated with red-brown, internodes of peripheral carina redbrown. periostracum pale-straw.
Source: Kay, 1979

Distribution

G. interpolata was described from the Hawaiian Islands.
Author: Jan Delsing

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