Pseudorhaphitoma scitula

Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
Shell and protoconch of Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:
P. scitula
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
(E. A. Smith, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mangilia scitula Melvill, 1917
  • Pleurotoma (Mangilia) scitula E. A. Smith, 1888 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.7 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.

This abundant little white species, has a fusiform shape narrowed below, with swollen upper whorls, and coarse spiral lirae, hexagonal, with very beautiful spiral, minutely punctate striae between the lirations just mentioned. The aperture is rather small, proportionately speaking [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma scitula (E. A. Smith, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434800 on 2018-01-06
  2. ^ 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. Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond. 12: 140-201, pls. 8-10 Public Domain 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.
  • "Pseudorhaphitoma scitula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.