Deceptigemmula deshayesii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Description The length of the shell attains 66.9 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is elongately turretted. It is yellowish-brown, sparsely undulated with whitish longitudinal flames. The whorls are convex, scarcely depressed at the sutures, and encircled by slender grooves and a bicarinate and superiorly flattened zone. The aperture is oblong and whitish. The outer lip is somewhat denticulate and deeply fissured. The siphonal canal is rather long, slender, and flexuous at the base.Doumet, E. (1840) Nouvelle espèce de Pleurotoma. Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne; Association universelle pour l'avancement de la zoologie, de l'anatomie comparée et de la palæontologie; Journal mensuel, 2, 324–325.
Distribution This marine species occurs in the East China Sea, South China Sea; off Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
References
Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies. eyae032: 1-40.
External links Li, Baoquan, and Xinzheng Li. "Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas." Zootaxa 1778.1 (2008): 1-25.