Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi

Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi
Apertural view of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Pseudorhaphitoma
Species: P. darnleyi
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi
(Brazier, 1876)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella darnleyi Brazier, 1876 (original combination)
  • Mangelia darnleyensis Tryon, 1884

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The slender, six-sided shell has a pyramidal shape. It is longitudinally ribbed and crossed with raised striae, somewhat rugose, interstices smooth.It contains 7 to 8 flattened whorls. The outer lip is slightly varicose. The sinus is wide and deep. The color is yellowish brown, the lip sometimes black-edged.[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 is endemic to Australia and occurs in the Gulf of Carpentaria and off Queensland, Australia

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi (Brazier, 1876). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434777 on 2018-01-02
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences 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.
  • Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
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