Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis

Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
Drawing of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Pseudorhaphitoma
Species: P. pyramis
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
(Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula pyramis Hinds, 1843 (original combination)
  • Daphnella (Mangilia) obeliscus (Reeve, 1843)
  • Mangelia obeliscus Reeve, L.A. 1846
  • Mangilia pyramis (Hinds, 1843)
  • Pleurotoma pyramis (Hinds, 1843)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The white shell is angularly longitudinally sharp ribbed, six-sided, with close revolving striae.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Queensland, Australia

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434799 on 2018-01-08
  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.
  • Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16–21, 36–46, 255–257
  • Reeve, L.A. 1846. Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 108-119
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Gastropods.com: Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
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