Mitromorpha pleurotomoides

Mitromorpha pleurotomoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]

Mitromorpha pleurotomoides
Original image of a shell of Mitromorpha pleurotomoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mitromorphidae
Genus: Mitromorpha
Species:
M. pleurotomoides
Binomial name
Mitromorpha pleurotomoides
(E. A. Smith, 1890)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra (Thala) pleurotomoides E. A. Smith, 1890 (basionym)
  • Mitrolumna pleurotomoides (E. A. Smith, 1890)
  • Mitromorpha (Mitrolumna) pleurotomoides E. A. Smith, 1890

Description

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

(Original description) This small, slightly fusiform species is remarkable for the peculiar truncate apex, the pleurotomoid labral sinus, and the columellar plaits being two only in number. Its color is white, sometimes rose-tinged. The shell contains 6 slightly convex whorls, including 2 vitreous whorl in the protoconch. The 16 longitudinal ribs and the transverse lirae (5–6 in the penultuimate whorl, 18–20 in the body whorl) are produced into acute nodules at the points of intersection. The small aperture is narrow. The outer lip is slightly incrassate, distinctly sinuate and shows about six small denticles inside. The wide siphonal canal is very short. The columella is slightly oblique and shows two tubercles in the middle.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off St. Helena.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Mitromorpha pleurotomoides (E. A. Smith, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=555869 on 2018-03-15
  2. Smith E.A. (1890). Report on the marine molluscan fauna of the island of St. Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1890: 247–317, pl. 21–24
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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