Pleurotomella expeditionis

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

Pleurotomella expeditionis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
P. expeditionis
Binomial name
Pleurotomella expeditionis
(Dell, 1956)
Synonyms[1]

Asperdaphne expeditionis Dell, 1956 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Chatham Islands

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2019). Pleurotomella expeditionis (Dell, 1956). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599026 on 2019-02-03
  • Dell, R. K. (1956). The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin. 18: 1-235
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
  • Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
  • 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
  • Biolib.cz: Pleurotomella expeditionis
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


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