Pleurotomella ecphora

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Pleurotomella ecphora
Pleurotomella ecphora 001.jpg
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella ecphora
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
P. ecphora
Binomial name
Pleurotomella ecphora
(Melvill, 1904)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia ecphora Melvill, 1904

Pleurotomella ecphora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

The small, white shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It is very elegant in form, fusoid towards the base. The shell contains six whorls. The three whorls of the protoconch are seen with a lens to be very finely cancellate. The species is remarkable for its acutely angled ridge surmounting the upper portion of the whorls of the spire. The longitudinal ribs (14 on the body whorl) and spiral lirae are extremely pronounced, the interstices being squarely and deeply cut. The siphonal canal is wide and open. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate. The sinus is wide but not deep. The columella is rather straight. [2]

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Pleurotomella ecphora (Melvill, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. ^ MELVILL, J. COSMO. "DESCRIPTIONS OF TWENTY-THREE SPECIES OF GASTROPODA FROM THE PERSIAN GULF, GULF OF OMAN, AND ARABIAN SEA, DREDGED BY MR. FW TOWNSEND, OF THE INDOEUROPEAN TELEGRAPH SERVICE, IN 1903." Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.1 (1904): 51-60

External links[]

  • Sykes, E. R. "Descriptions of new forms of Marginellidae and Pleurotomidae." Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.6 (1905): 315-318 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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