Cryptogemma praesignis

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

Cryptogemma praesignis
Shell and protoconch of Cryptogemma praesignis (holotype of Pleurotoma (Drillia) microscelida at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Conoidea
Family:
Turridae
Subfamily:
Turrinae
Genus:
Cryptogemma
Species:
C. praesignis
Binomial name
Cryptogemma praesignis
(Dall, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia microscelida W.H. Dall, 1895
  • Gemmula (Ptychosyrinx) lordhoweensis Kantor & Sysoev, 1991
  • Gemmula bisinuata (Martens, 1901)
  • Gemmula microscelida (Dall, 1895)
  • Gemmula praesignis (E. A. Smith, 1895)
  • Gemmula rotatilis (Martens, 1902)
  • Pleurotoma (Drillia) microscelida Dall, 1895
  • Pleurotoma (Gemmula) rotatilis von Martens, 1902
  • Pleurotoma (Subulata) bisinuata von Martens, 1901
  • Pleurotoma (Surcula) lobata G. B. Sowerby III, 1903
  • Pleurotoma praesignis E. A. Smith, 1895 (original combination)
  • Ptychosyrinx bisinuata (Martens, 1901)
  • Ptychosyrinx bisinuata japonica Okutani, 1964
  • Ptychosyrinx lobata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hawaii and Sri Lanka

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References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cryptogemma praesignis (E. A. Smith, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1425469 on 2020-03-25
  • Smith, E. A. (1895). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 'Investigator', Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N.-Series II, No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during the season 1893-94. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (series 6) 16: 1-19, pls. 1-2-page(s): 4, pl. 1 fig. 4
  • Okutani T. (1964). Report on the archibenthal and abyssal gastropod Mollusca collected from Sagami Bay and adjacent waters by the R.V. Soyo-Maru during the years 1955-1963. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, section 2. 15: 371-447, 7 pls.
  • Kantor, Yu.I. & Sysoev, A.S. (1991a) Sexual dimorphism in the apertural notch of a new species of Gemmula (Gastropoda: Turridae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57, 205–209.


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