Hemilienardia subspurca

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

Hemilienardia subspurca
Shells of Hemilienardia subspurca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. subspurca
Binomial name
Hemilienardia subspurca
(Hervier, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Glyphostoma subspurcum Hervier, 1896 (original combination)
  • Kermia subspurca (Hervier, 1896)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 9 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia and Taiwan.

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia subspurca (Hervier, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980562 on 2019-07-03
  • Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. - Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180
  • 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.
  • Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"). Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152]
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • MNHN, Paris: syntype
  • Gastropods.com: Kermia subspurcum
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