Phenatoma rosea
Phenatoma rosea, or the pink tower shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Borsoniidae.[1]
| Phenatoma rosea | |
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| Two shells of Phenatoma rosea (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Borsoniidae |
| Genus: | Phenatoma |
| Species: | P. rosea |
| Binomial name | |
| Phenatoma rosea | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 23 mm and 34 mm; its width is 11 mm. The shell is spirally sulcate and longitudinally striate0 The suture is slightly impressed, marginate and subcrenulate. The; sinus is rather broad and shallow. It has a rose-ash color, purple-rose within the aperture.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs is endemic to New Zealand and Tasmania
References
- WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma rosea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434595 on 14 August 2011
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Drillia novaezelandiae)
- Quoy, Jean Rene Constant, Paul Gaimard, and Jules Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par orde du Roi pendant les années 1826-1829 sous le commandement de m. J. Dumont D'Urville: troisième division, Zoologie. Tastu, 1833.
External links
- "Phenatoma rosea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308.
Further reading
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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