Pleurotomella anomalapex
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Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella anomalapex | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Raphitomidae |
Genus: | Pleurotomella |
Species: | P. anomalapex
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Binomial name | |
Pleurotomella anomalapex Powell, 1951
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotomella anomalapex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Description[]
The length of the shell attains 7.8 mm.
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Distribution[]
This marine species occurs off the Falkland Islands and Patagonia; off the South Sandwich Islands and the Scotia Sea.
References[]
- ^ a b Pleurotomella anomalapex Powell, 1951. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- Powell, Arthur William Baden. Antarctic and subantarctic mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Vol. 26. University Press, 1951.
External links[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Pleurotomella_anomalapex_002.jpg/220px-Pleurotomella_anomalapex_002.jpg)
Shell and protoconch of Pleurotomella anomalapex (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
- Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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- Pleurotomella
- Gastropods described in 1951
- Pleurotomella stubs