Gemmula amabilis

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

Gemmula amabilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Gemmula
Species:	G. amabilis
Binomial name
Gemmula amabilis (Weinkauff, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotoma amabilis Weinkauff, 1875 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 40 mm.

The pale yellowish-brown, fusiform shell is rather solid. It is spirally girdled with sutures sculpted with incremental striae. The first cingulum (the spiral ornamentation) is distinctly nodose. The carina (the keel-like structure) is produced, covered with white nodules. The conical spire has an acute apex and shows eleven carinated whorls. The evanescent suture is oblique; the last one is convex. The siphonal canal is narrow and long. The aperture is pear-shaped. It is marginally and internally ribbed. The outer lip is produced below. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.