Gemmula lisajoni explained

Gemmula lisajoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 35 mm. It has a brown spire with a distinctive purplish-violet siphonal canal.

It is related to Gemmula ambara Olivera et al., 2008 and Gemmula rosario Shikama, 1977 ^[1]

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

• Olivera BM. The subfamily Turrinae in the Philippines: the genus Turris (Röding, 1798). Phil J Sci 1999; 128: 295-318

External links

• Gastropods.com: Gemmula (Gemmula) lisajoni
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

Notes and References

1. https://www.philsciletters.net/2008/Gemmula%20ambara%20PSL%202008%20Olivera.pdf Olivera, Baldomero M., David R. Hillyard, and Maren Watkins. "A new species of Gemmula, Weinkauff 1875; Evidence of two clades of Philippine species in the genus Gemmula." Philipp Sci Lett 11 (2008): 11-15.