''Heteroturris gemmuloides'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ ...

.WoRMS (2015). Heteroturris gemmuloides Sysoev, 1997. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434011 on 2016-03-10

Description

The length of the shell attains 40.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Eastern

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

References

* Sysoev, Alexander. ''Mollusca Gastropoda: new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia''. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 1997.

External links

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Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308

MNHN, Paris: ''Heteroturris gemmuloides'' (holotype)
* gemmuloides Gastropods described in 1997 {{Borsoniidae-stub