Anisogemmula albina

Anisogemmula albina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. ^[1]

Anisogemmula albina
Shell of Anisogemmula albina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Anisogemmula
Species:	A. albina
Binomial name
Anisogemmula albina (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
Gemmula albina (Lamarck, 1822) superseded combination Lophiotoma albina (Lamarck, 1822) Pleurotoma albina Lamarck, 1822 (original combination)

Description

The keel-rib is flattened, bearing a row of equidistant, somewhat quadrangular brown spots. The rest of the surface is very minutely and numerously punctate with brown.

The conspicuous painting on the slit-band, contrasted with the very minute sprinkling of brown dots elsewhere, is the distinguishing characteristic of this species.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.