Kermia netrodes
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| Kermia netrodes | |
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| Original image of a shell of Kermia netrodes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Kermia |
| Species: | K. netrodes |
| Binomial name | |
| Kermia netrodes (Melvill, 1917) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Clathurina netrodes Melvill, 1917 | |
Kermia netrodes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.
The long shell has an attenuate shape. It is straw-colored to brown colored with sparse brownish spiral beneath the sutures and below the periphery at the base of the shell. It contains 10 whorls of which 3 in the protoconch. The second and the third whorl are cancellate. The subsequent whorls contains few, rounded ribs, crossed everywhere by 3 - 4 rough, spiral lirae; nine ribs and in the body whorl. The ovate-shaped aperture is narrow. The sinus is not deep. The outer lip is slightly incrassate. The columella is rather straight. The siphonal canal is not produced.[1]
