Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei explained

Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.5 mm, its diameter 5.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs at depths between 300 m and 350 m in the Coral Sea and off New Caledonia.

External links

• Sysoev, Alexander, and Philippe Bouchet. "Taxonomic reevaluation of Gemmuloborsonia Shuto, 1989 (Gastropoda: Conoidea), with a description of new Recent deep-water species." Journal of Molluscan Studies 62.1 (1996): 75-87
• Bouchet, Philippe, et al. "A quarter-century of deep-sea malacological exploration in the South and West Pacific: where do we stand? How far to go." Tropical deep-sea Benthos 25 (2008): 9-40
• Holotype of Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei at MNHN, Paris

Notes and References

1. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .