Cryptogemma praesignis

Cryptogemma praesignis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Cryptogemma praesignis
Shell and protoconch of Cryptogemma praesignis (holotype of Pleurotoma (Drillia) microscelida at the Smithsonian Institution)
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C. praesignis
Binomial name
Cryptogemma praesignis
(Dall, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia microscelida W.H. Dall, 1895
  • Gemmula (Ptychosyrinx) lordhoweensis Kantor & Sysoev, 1991
  • Gemmula bisinuata (Martens, 1901)
  • Gemmula microscelida (Dall, 1895)
  • Gemmula praesignis (E. A. Smith, 1895)
  • Gemmula rotatilis (Martens, 1902)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) microscelida Dall, 1895
  • Pleurotoma (Gemmula) rotatilis von Martens, 1902
  • Pleurotoma (Subulata) bisinuata von Martens, 1901
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) lobata G. B. Sowerby III, 1903
  • Pleurotoma praesignis E. A. Smith, 1895 (original combination)
  • Ptychosyrinx bisinuata (Martens, 1901)
  • Ptychosyrinx bisinuata japonica Okutani, 1964
  • Ptychosyrinx lobata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hawaii and Sri Lanka

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cryptogemma praesignis (E. A. Smith, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1425469 on 2020-03-25
  • Smith, E. A. (1895). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 'Investigator', Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N.-Series II, No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during the season 1893-94. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (series 6) 16: 1-19, pls. 1-2-page(s): 4, pl. 1 fig. 4
  • Okutani T. (1964). Report on the archibenthal and abyssal gastropod Mollusca collected from Sagami Bay and adjacent waters by the R.V. Soyo-Maru during the years 1955-1963. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, section 2. 15: 371-447, 7 pls.
  • Kantor, Yu.I. & Sysoev, A.S. (1991a) Sexual dimorphism in the apertural notch of a new species of Gemmula (Gastropoda: Turridae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57, 205–209.


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