Kermia maculosa
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| Kermia maculosa | |
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| Shells of Kermia maculosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Kermia |
| Species: | K. maculosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Kermia maculosa (Pease, 1863) | |
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Kermia maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 6 mm; its diameter 2½ mm.
(Original description) The oblong-ovate shell is white, shining and sparsely blotched with dark chestnut-brown. It is longitudinally ribbed and transversely elevately striated. The whorls are convex. The aperture is less than one-half the length of the shell. [2]
