Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota

Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota
Original image of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:	P. ditylota
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota (Melvill, 1912)
Synonyms[1]
Clathurella ditylota Melvill, 1912 (original combination) Defrancia ditylota (Melvill, 1912). Lienardia (Etrema) ditylota (Melvill, 1912).

Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) The solid, fusiform shell has a whitish color or is flesh-colored. It contains 9 whorls, of which two globose and almost translucent whorls in the protoconch. The third and sometimes the fourth whorl show simple spiral carinae. The other whorls show thick longitudinal ribs and are spirally bicarinate, producing sharp transverse plicules. The body whorl is tricarinate and continues at the same time and uninterrupted up to its base with 8 - 10 spirally lirae. The aperture is ovate. The slightly expanded outer lip is incrassate. The sinus is rather wide. The columella shows two plications or two tubercles.[2]

This species is remarkable by the absence of fine grained spirals and is by this an aberrant members of this genus.[3]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Persian Gulf, in the Gulf of Carpentaria and off Queensland, Australia

References

1. WoRMS (2017). Pseudorhaphitoma ditylota (Melvill, 1912). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432871 on 2018-01-03
2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 10 (1912-1913) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Melvill, J.C. 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 12(4-5): 140-201
• Ong Che RG. & Morton B. (1991). Spatial and temporal variations in the subtidal macrobenthic community of Tai Tam bay, Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Asian Marine Biology 8. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 193–216

External links

• Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 10 (1912-1913) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.