Biology:Hemilienardia rubicunda

Short description: Species of gastropod

Hemilienardia rubicunda
Shells of Hemilienardia rubicunda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Hemilienardia
Species:	H. rubicunda
Binomial name
Hemilienardia rubicunda (Gould, 1860)
Synonyms
Clathurella rubicunda Gould, 1860 (original combination) Lienardia rubicunda (Gould, 1860)

Hemilienardia rubicunda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and in the Red Sea and the Central and West Pacific.

References

• Gould, A. A. "Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States north Pacific exploring expedition." Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. 7. 1860.
• 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.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf. 
• MNHN, Paris: specimen
• Smith, Barry D. "Prosobranch gastropods of Guam." Micronesica 35.36 (2003): 244-270
• TRÖNDLÉ, J. E. A. N.; BOUTET, Michel. Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin, 2009

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