Deceptigemmula deshayesii

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

Deceptigemmula deshayesii
Deceptigemmula deshayesii shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Deceptigemmula
Species:	D. deshayesii
Binomial name
Deceptigemmula deshayesii (Doumet, 1840)
Synonyms[1]
Gemmula deshayesii (Doumet, 1840) Gemmula (Unedogemmula) deshayesii Powell 1964 Lophiotoma deshayesii (Doumet, 1839) Pleurotoma deshayesii Doumet, 1840 Pleurotoma indica Tryon, 1884 - not Deshayes, 1833 Turris polytropa Kira 1971 Unedogemmula elongata J.E. Gray & G.B. I Sowerby, 1839 Unedogemmula deshayesii (Doumet, 1840) superseded combination

Description

The length of the shell attains 66.9 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is elongately turretted. It is yellowish-brown, sparsely undulated with whitish longitudinal flames. The whorls are convex, scarcely depressed at the sutures, and encircled by slender grooves and a bicarinate and superiorly flattened zone. The aperture is oblong and whitish. The outer lip is somewhat denticulate and deeply fissured. The siphonal canal is rather long, slender, and flexuous at the base. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the East China Sea, South China Sea; off Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.