Pseudomelatoma

Pseudomelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]

Pseudomelatoma
A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Pseudomelatoma
Dall, 1918[1]
Type species
Drillia penicillata
Carpenter, 1865
Species

See text

Description

(Original description) There is a group of species typified by Pleurotoma penicillata Carpenter which in sculpture and periostracum closely resemble the African Melatoma but their operculum has an apical nucleus and is long and narrow. They may be called Pseudomelatoma. Melatoma Anthony, 1847, is quite a different thing.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudomelatoma include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Pseudomelatoma grippi (Dall, 1919): synonym of Ophiodermella grippi (Dall, 1919)
  • Pseudomelatoma redondoensis T. Burch, 1938: synonym of Burchia semiinflata (Grant & Gale, 1931) (original combination)

References
  1. Dall (1918). Proc. U.S. nat. Mus. 54(2238): 317.
  2. MolluscaBase (2018). Pseudomelatoma Dall, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432539 on 2018-04-22
  3. W.H. Dall (1918) Notes on the nomenclature of the mollusks of the family Turritidae; Proceedings of The United States National Museum v. 54 (1918) 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.
  • Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
  • Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae


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