{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Mormula | authority = A. Adams, 1863<ref>A. Adams, Jour. Linn. Soc., vii, p. 1, 1863,</ref> | type_species = ''Mormula rissoina'' | type_species_authority = A. Adams, 1864 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}
'''''Mormula''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.<ref name="WoRMS">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 2012</ref><ref>Nomenclator Zoologicus</ref>
==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.<ref>G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 297; 1889</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Mormula'' include:<ref name="WoRMS" /> [[File:Mormula chrysozona 001.png|thumb|Drawing of a ''Mormula chrysozona'' shell]] * ''Mormula chrysozona'' <small>(Martens, 1880)</small> * ''Mormula hirasei'' <small>Kuroda, 1960</small> * ''Mormula macandreae'' <small>A. Adams, 1870</small> * ''Mormula persarum'' <small>Melvill & Standen, 1903</small> * ''Mormula philippiana'' <small>(Dunker, 1860)</small> * ''Mormula pseudorex'' <small>(Nomura, 1936)</small> * ''Mormula rex'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1904)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Mormula aureocincta'' <small>Kuroda & Habe, 1971</small>: synonym of ''Pyrgiscus aureocinctus'' <small>(Kuroda & Habe, 1971)</small> * ''Mormula excellens'' <small>G.B. Sowerby III, 1907</small>: synonym of ''Turbonilla aulica'' <small>Dall & Bartsch, 1906</small> * ''Mormula humilis'' <small>(Preston, 1905)</small>: synonym of ''Quirella humilis'' <small>(Preston, 1905)</small> * ''Mormula rissoina'' <small>A. Adams, 1864</small>: synonym of ''Turbonilla philippiana'' <small>Dunker, 1860</small> * ''Mormula terebra'' <small>(A. Adams, 1861)</small>: synonym of ''Chrysallida terebra'' <small>A. Adams, 1861</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8580857 Adams A. (1863). ''On the species of Pyramidellinae found in Japan''. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 7: 1-6] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36241906 Odé H. (1998) ''Indo-Pacific taxa of turbonillids, excluding those along the Americas''. Texas Conchologist 34(2): 33-103]
==External links== * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203962 World Register of Marine Species] {{Taxonbar|from=Q6912706}}
Category:Pyramidellidae Category:Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)