Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei

Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei
Shell of Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Gemmuloborsonia
Species:
G. jarrigei
Binomial name
Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei
Sysoev & Bouchet, 1996

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.

References

  1. Gemmuloborsonia jarrigei Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.

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