Pyrgospira plicosa

Pyrgospira plicosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Pyrgospira
Species: P. plicosa
Binomial name
Pyrgospira plicosa
(Adams C. B., 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clathurella jewetti Stearns, R.E.C., 1875
  • Pleurotoma brunnea Perkins, G.H., 1869
  • Pleurotoma plicata Adams, C.B., 1840
  • Pleurotoma plicosa Adams C. B., 1850

Pyrgospira plicosa, common name the plicate turrid shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 6 mm and 13 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Southern Massachusetts, USA, to Panama.

References

  1. 1 2 Pyrgospira plicosa (Adams C. B., 1850).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
  • Adams, C.B. (1840) Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells of New England. Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History, 3, 318–332, pl. 3


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