{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |image = Kermia cavernosa 002.jpg |image_caption = Shell of ''Kermia cavernosa'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Kermia cavernosa |authority = (Reeve, 1845) |synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> |synonyms = * ''Daphnella (Mangilia cavernosa'' <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small> * ''Clathurina cavernosa'' <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small> * ''Pleurotoma cavernosa'' <small>Reeve, 1845</small> (original combination) * ''Pseudodaphnella cavernosa'' <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small> }}
'''''Kermia cavernosa''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Kermia cavernosa (Reeve, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759408 on 2019-07-15</ref> ==Description== The length of the shell attains 9 – 10 mm.
The shell is narrowly shouldered. The ribs are oblique, rather narrow. The shell is white, the shoulder light chestnut, with sometimes a few chestnut spots on the body whorl.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences] {{PD-notice}}</ref>
==Distribution== This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Indonesia and in the Persian Gulf and Fiji Islands
==References== {{Reflist}} * Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1845, p. 118
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Tucker | first1 = J.K. | year = 2004 | title = Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | url = http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 682 | pages = 1–1295 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 }} * [https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.861939 Li B.-Q. [Baoquan] & Li X.-Z. [Xinzheng] (2014) Report on the Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the China Seas. Journal of Natural History 48(17-18): 999-1025] * [http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_41530.shtml Gastropods.com: ''Clathurella cavernosa''] * [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofmal1213191619mala J.C. Melvill (1917), A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1914; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London vol. 12, 1917] {{PD-notice}} * [https://archive.org/details/prosobranchiaofs46sche Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa] {{PD-notice}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kermia Cavernosa}} cavernosa Category:Gastropods described in 1845 Category:Taxa named by Lovell Augustus Reeve