Mormula

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

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

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.

Species

Species within the genus Mormula include:

• Mormula chrysozona (Martens, 1880)
• Mormula hirasei Kuroda, 1960
• Mormula macandreae A. Adams, 1870
• Mormula persarum Melvill & Standen, 1903
• Mormula philippiana (Dunker, 1860)
• Mormula pseudorex (Nomura, 1936)
• Mormula rex (Pilsbry, 1904)

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

References

• Adams A. (1863). On the species of Pyramidellinae found in Japan. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 7: 1-6
• Odé H. (1998) Indo-Pacific taxa of turbonillids, excluding those along the Americas. Texas Conchologist 34(2): 33-103

External links

• World Register of Marine Species