Pleurotomella lucasii

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

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

Daphnella lucasii Melvill, 1904

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

This fusiform species is more effuse and inflated than its congeners. The shell contains 9 whorls including 4 apical whorls. The apical whorls are beautifully decussate. The whorls of the teleoconch are ventricose. The conspicuous spiral, raised lirae (7 at the penultimate whorl, 18 on the body whorl) extend at unequal intervals over the whole surface of the lower whorls. They are almost unbroken on the ventricose body whorl, while crossed frequently above by irregular liral riblets on the upper whorls. The aperture is rotund-ovate. The outer lip is very effuse. The recurved siphonal canal is slightly produced. The shell is hardly shining and shows dark brown spots.[2]

Distribution

{This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Database: Pleurotomella lucasii
  2. Melvill J.C. Descriptions of twenty-eight Species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. v. 6 1904 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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