Mormula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.WoRMS (2010). Mormula A. Adams, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203962 on 26 August 2012Nomenclator Zoologicus
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.G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 297; 1889
Species Species within the genus Mormula include:
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
References
Adams A. (1863). On the species of Pyramidellinae found in Japan. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 7: 1-6 Odé H. (1998) Indo-Pacific taxa of turbonillids, excluding those along the Americas. Texas Conchologist 34(2): 33-103
External links World Register of Marine Species