Mormula

Mormula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]

Mormula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Mormula
A. Adams, 1863 [1]
Type species
Mormula rissoina
A. Adams, 1864

Description

The thick shell is turreted and shaped like an awl, rissoid, solid, and longitudinally plicate . The aperture is large. The columella is spirally tortuous. The outer lip is thickened within. The margin acute.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Mormula include:[2]

Drawing of a Mormula chrysozona shell
Species brought into synonymy
  • Mormula aureocincta Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Pyrgiscus aureocinctus (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
  • Mormula excellens G.B. Sowerby III, 1907: synonym of Turbonilla aulica Dall & Bartsch, 1906
  • Mormula humilis (Preston, 1905): synonym of Quirella humilis (Preston, 1905)
  • Mormula rissoina A. Adams, 1864: synonym of Turbonilla philippiana Dunker, 1860
  • Mormula terebra (A. Adams, 1861): synonym of Chrysallida terebra A. Adams, 1861
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References
  1. A. Adams, Jour. Linn. Soc., vii, p. 1, 1863,
  2. WoRMS (2010). Mormula A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203962 on 26 August 2012
  3. Nomenclator Zoologicus
  4. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 297; 1889
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