Pleurotomella rossi

Pleurotomella rossi
Shell of Pleurotomella rossi (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Pleurotomella
Species:	P. rossi
Binomial name
Pleurotomella rossi Dell, 1990
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) rossi Dell, 1990

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

Description[]

The length of the shell attains 11.9 mm.

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Distribution[]

This species occurs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica and off Visokoi Island, SE of island, South Sandwich Islands, South Atlantic Ocean at a depth between 93 mm and 121 m.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

• Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links[]

• Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
• Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213
• Biolib.cz: image
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.