Biology:Gymnobela emertoni

Short description: Species of gastropod

Gymnobela emertoni
Original image of a shell of Gymnobela emertoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Gymnobela
Species:	G. emertoni
Binomial name
Gymnobela emertoni (Verrill & S. Smith [in Verrill), 1884)
Synonyms
Gymnobela leptoconchum Locard, 1897 Gymnobela tincta Verrill, 1885 Pleurotoma leptoconchum Locard, 1897 Pleurotoma leptoconchum var. curta Locard, 1897 Pleurotomella emertoni Verrill, 1884 Pleurotomella tincta Verrill, 1885

Gymnobela emertoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 27 mm.

(Original description) The shell is moderately large, stout and ovate. The body whorl is very large in proportion to the rest of the shell. Some of the upper whorls are ribbed and nodulous, while the two lower whorls have only spiral lines and lines of growth. The shell contains about eight whorls, three of which form a chestnut-colored protoconch. About three whorls below the protoconch are covered with prominent, longitudinal ribs, which form a well marked shoulder and are crossed by several conspicuous, revolving cinguli and grooves, which render them decidedly nodulous. The subsutural band is broad, strongly concave, occupying nearly or quite half the breadth of the upper whorls, and is crossed by strongly receding, raised lines, parallel with the lines of growth of the sinus, but without spiral lines. The body whorl is large and swollen, covered throughout with very evident lines of growth, which are crossed, except on the subsutural band, by conspicuous, revolving cinguli, which are separated by spaces considerably exceeding their own breadth. The aperture is oblong-ovate, scarcely narrowed at the broad, short, open siphonal canal, and with a very wide and rather deep posterior sinus. The outer lip is thin and projects well forward beyond the sinus in a broadly rounded curve. The columella is straight, with a sinuous inner margin. The inner lip is marked by a narrow and thin enamel, which extends but little forward in a sinuous outline. The color is yellowish white under a thin, smooth, glossy, yellowish green epidermis.

Distribution

This marine species occurs on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and off New Jersey and Virginia, USA.

References

• Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.

External links

• Verrill A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England Coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 6: 395-452, pl. 42-44
• MNHN, Paris: Pleurotoma leptoconchum
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf. 
• Locard, A., 1897 - Mollusques testacés. In: Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, vol. 1, p. 516 p, 22 pls
• Bouchet & Warren, Revision of the North-East Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda); The Journal of Molluscan Studies, supplement 8, December 1980

Wikidata ☰ Q3171874 entry