{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Speciesbox |taxon =Kermia spanionema |image = Kermia spanionema 001.jpg |image_caption = Original image of a shell of ''Kermia spanionema'' |authority = (Melvill, 1917) |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = ''Clathurina spanionema'' <small>Melvill, 1917</small> |display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Kermia spanionema''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.<ref name="Melvill" /> ==Description== The length of the shell attains 8&nbsp;mm, its diameter 3&nbsp;mm.

A small, delicate, white shell with a fusiform shape. It is eight-whorled of which three in the protoconch. The first two are globose and vitreous, the third apical being beautifully cancellate. The subsequent five whorls are impressed at the suture and longitudinally incrassate (12 on the body whorl). The spiral lirae are few, in the last whorl they are absent just in the centre. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is not prominent. The siphonal canal is somewhat prolonged. The columella is straight.<ref name="Melvill">[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}}</ref>

==Distribution== This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

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==External links== * {{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 }}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kermia Spanionema}} spanionema Category:Gastropods described in 1917 Category:Taxa named by James Cosmo Melvill