Cryptogemma

Cryptogemma
Shell of Cryptogemma praesignis (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Cryptogemma
Dall, 1918
Type species
Gemmula benthima Dall, 1908
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Bathybermudia F. Haas, 1949
  • Gemmula (Pinguigemmula) MacNeil, 1961
  • Pinguigemmula MacNeil, 1961
  • Ptychosyrinx Thiele, 1925

Cryptogemma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Distribution

These are deep-sea species with a wide geographic distribution.

Species

According to Zaccharias et al. (2020) this genus should only include:

The others should be excluded from this genus because the lack key characters such as the narrow fusiform shell and the well-marked peripheral anal sinus. They show closer resemblances to other conoidean families (such as Horaiclavidae) than to Turridae.

Species within the genus Cryptogemma include (according to WoRMS):

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Cryptogemma Dall, 1918. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
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  3. ↑ Cryptogemma calypso Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Cryptogemma chrysothemis Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Cryptogemma corneus (Okutani, 1966). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Cryptogemma eldorana (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. ↑ Cryptogemma longicostata Sysoev & Kantor, 1986. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Cryptogemma oregonensis Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  9. ↑ Cryptogemma phymatias (Watson, 1886). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Cryptogemma polystephanus (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  11. ↑ Cryptogemma quentinensis Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  12. ↑ Cryptogemma benthima (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.