Unedogemmula unedo explained

Unedogemmula unedo is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 49.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands; in the East China Sea; off Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan; off Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia (Australia)

References

• Kiener, L.C. 1839–1840. Genre Pleurotome (Pleurotoma Lam.). 1-84, pls 1–27 in Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Rousseau Vol. 5.
• Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp.
• Kira, T. 1954. Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Osaka : Hoikusha Vol. 1 viii 172 pp. 67 pls, 24.
• Garrard, T. A. (1961). Mollusca collected by M. V. Challenge off the east coast of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 1(5): 3-38, 2 pls.
• MacNeil . F.S. . Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa . U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. . 1961 . 339 . 1-148 . 27 June 2024.
• Powell, A.W.B. 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The Subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1: 227-346
• Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp.
• Tantanasiriwong, R. 1978. An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore islands, Western Peninsula, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 21: 1-22, 259 figs
• Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295

External links

• J.C. Melvill (1910) Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History; 8th ser. vol. VI

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Unedogemmula unedo (Kiener, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597489 on 2020-12-19