Kermia spanionema

Kermia spanionema is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Kermia spanionema
Original image of a shell of Kermia spanionema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Kermia
Species:	K. spanionema
Binomial name
Kermia spanionema (Melvill, 1917)
Synonyms
Clathurina spanionema Melvill, 1917

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

A small, delicate, white shell with a fusiform shape. It is eight-whorled of which three in the protoconch. The first two are globose and vitreous, the third apical being beautifully cancellate. The subsequent five whorls are impressed at the suture and longitudinally incrassate (12 on the body whorl). The spiral lirae are few, in the last whorl they are absent just in the centre. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is not prominent. The siphonal canal is somewhat prolonged. The columella is straight.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.