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Cryptogemma aethiopica
Shell of Cryptogemma aethiopica (holotype at Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Cryptogemma
Species:	C. aethiopica
Binomial name
Cryptogemma aethiopica (Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms
Gemmula (Pinguigemmula) thielei Finlay, 1930 Gemmula aethiopica (Thiele, 1925) Gemmula luzonica (Powell, 1964) Gemmula thielei Finlay, 1930 Pinguigemmula luzonica Powell, 1964 † Pinguigemmula okinavensis MacNeil, 1961 Pinguigemmula philippinensis Powell, 1964 Pinguigemmula thielei Powell 1964 Pleurotoma aethiopica Thiele, 1925 Pleurotoma fusiformis Thiele, 1925 Pleurotoma (Gemmula) aethiopica Thiele, 1925 (basionym) Pleurotoma (Gemmula) fusiformis Thiele, 1925 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma fusiformis J.de C. Sowerby, 1823; Gemmula thielei is a replacement name) † Pleurotoma tricincta K. Martin, 1935

Cryptogemma aethiopica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Description

The length of the shell attains 42.2 mm, its diameter 16.9 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia and Madagascar; also in the Central Indo-Pacific at depths between 400 m to 850 m: in the South China Sea; off Sumatra, Indonesia.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cryptogemma aethiopica (Thiele, 1925). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1425516 on 2020-10-12

• Thiele J. (1925). Gastropoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. II Teil. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. 17(2): 35-382, pls 13-46
• Powell, A.W.B. (1964) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1. The subfamily Turrinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca, 1(5), 227–346.
• MacNeil F. S. (1961 ) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339: iv + 148 pp., 21 pls.
• Martin, K. 1935. Oligocaene Gastropoden von Buton. Leidsche Geologische Mededeelingen 7(1):111-118, pl. 2.
• Cernohorsky, W. O. (1987). "Taxonomic Notes on Some Deep-Water Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Malagasy Republic". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 24: 123–134. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906368. Wikidata Q58677293.
• Liu, J.Y. (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
• Li B. & Li X. . (2008). Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas. Zootaxa. 1778: 1-25.

External links

• Zaharias P., Kantor Y.I., Fedosov A.E., Criscione F., Hallan A., Kano Y., Bardin J. & Puillandre N. (2020). Just the once will not hurt: DNA suggests species lumping over two oceans in deep-sea snails (Cryptogemma). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa010/5802562
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Finlay H.J. (1930). Invalid molluscan names. No. 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 61: 37-48

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