Xenuroturris emmae

Xenuroturris emmae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turridae
Genus: Xenuroturris
Species:
X. emmae
Binomial name
Xenuroturris emmae
Bozzetti, 1993

Xenuroturris emmae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Taxonomy

Due to a very different appearance from other members of the Xenuroturris (orange-brown-cultured shell with irregular positions of lighter spots), Kantor et al. 2024 state that attribution of the species to Xenuroturris is "only conditional[...]" until more data is acquired.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Somalia.

References

Sources

  • Bozzetti, L. (1994). Description of two new species of the genera Xenuroturris Iredale and Inquisitor from north-western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda Turridae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 3(2): 24-27.
  • Kantor, Yuri; Bouchet, Philippe; Fedosov, Alexander; Puillandre, Nicolas; Zaharias, Paul (2024). "Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea)" (PDF). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90 (5) eyae032. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyae032.