Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona
Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhaphitoma |
| Species: | P. heptagona |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona (Dunker, 1871) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 4.4 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Samoa.
References
- WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona (Dunker, 1871). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434784 on 2018-01-06
- Dunker, G. 1871. Mollusca nova Musei Godeffroy Hamburgensis. Malakozoologische Blätter 18: 150-175
- R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 2; Annals of the Natal Museum 34, pp 317 - 367 (1993)
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- "Pseudorhaphitoma heptagona". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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