Eugemmula amabilis


Eugemmula amabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

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 is distinctly nodose. The carina 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.

Distribution

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