Hemilienardia rubicunda explained

Hemilienardia rubicunda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Red Sea and the Central and West Pacific.

References

• Gould, A. A. "Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States north Pacific exploring expedition." Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. 7. 1860.
• Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295. 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• MNHN, Paris: specimen
• Smith, Barry D. "Prosobranch gastropods of Guam." Micronesica 35.36 (2003): 244-270
• TRÖNDLÉ, J. E. A. N.; BOUTET, Michel. Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin, 2009

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia rubicunda (Gould, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980561 on 2019-07-03