Kermia maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Kermia maculosa (Pease, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1027708 on 2019-07-17
Description The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 6 mm; its diameter 2½ mm.
(Original description) The oblong-ovate shell is white, shining and sparsely blotched with dark chestnut-brown. It is longitudinally ribbed and transversely elevately striated. The whorls are convex. The aperture is less than one-half the length of the shell. Pease W.H. (1863 ["1862"). Description of new species of marine shells from the Pacific Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1862): 240-243]
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines.
References
Shasky D.R. (1997). Reinstatement of Kermia maculosa (Pease, 1862) (Gastropoda: Turridae). The Festivus. 29: 11-13
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