Kermia bifasciata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Kermia bifasciata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Kermia |
| Species: | K. bifasciata
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| Binomial name | |
| Kermia bifasciata (Pease, 1860)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Borsonia bifasciata Pease, 1860 | |
It was assigned to Kermia by Kay, 1979 [2]
Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 5.32 mm and 8.04 mm.
(Original description) The fusiform, shining shell is longitudinally coarsely ribbed (14 on the body whorl) and crossed by coarse raised striae. The protoconch consists of three brown conical whorls. The five whorls of the teleoconch are rounded at the sutures. The outer lip is thick, incurved, serrated on the edges at the termination of the transverse striae. The ovate aperture has no denticles. The siphonal canal is short and slightly recurved. The colour of the shell is white. There are two light brown bands on each whorl.[3][4]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Hawaii and Easter Island and French Polynesia; also in the Red Sea.
References edit
- ^ a b Kermia bifasciata (Pease, 1860). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ^ Kay EA. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4: mollusca. Bernice P. Bishop Mus Spec Publ. 64:xviii + 1–653
- ^ Pease, W. H. (1860). Descriptions of new species of mollusca from the Sandwich Islands (Part II). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 18-36, 141-148
- ^ Raines, Bret K. "Contributions to the knowledge of Easter Island Mollusca." La Conchiglia 304 (2002): 11-40.
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links edit
- MNHN, Paris: specimen
- Moretzsohn, Fabio, and E. Alison Kay. "HAWAIIAN MARINE MOLLUSCS." (1995)
- Li B.-Q. [Baoquan] & Li X.-Z. [Xinzheng] (2014) Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History 48(17-18): 999-1025
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Gastropods.com: Kermia bifasciata
- Tröndlé, J. E. A. N., and Michel Boutet. "Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia." Atoll Research Bulletin (2009)
- Dekker, Henk, and Zvi Orlin. "Check-list of Red Sea mollusca." Spirula 1 (2000): 3-46.