Mormula

Mormula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.^[2][3]

Mormula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Mormula A. Adams, 1863[1]
Type species
Mormula rissoina A. Adams, 1864

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.^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Mormula include:^[2]

Drawing of a Mormula chrysozona shell

• 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