Mormula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]

Mormula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Mormula
A. Adams, 1863[1]
Type species
Mormula rissoina
A. Adams, 1864

Description

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The thick shell is turreted and shaped like an awl, rissoid, solid, and longitudinally plicate . The aperture is large. The columella is spirally tortuous. The outer lip is thickened within. The margin acute.[4]

Species

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Species within the genus Mormula include:[2]

 
Drawing of a Mormula chrysozona shell
Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. ^ A. Adams, Jour. Linn. Soc., vii, p. 1, 1863,
  2. ^ a b WoRMS (2010). Mormula A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203962 on 26 August 2012
  3. ^ Nomenclator Zoologicus
  4. ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 297; 1889
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