Pseudomelatoma torosa
Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [1]
- Subspecies
- Pseudomelatoma torosa aurantia Carpenter, 1864
A live Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ, the shell encrusted with pink coralline algae
| Pseudomelatoma torosa | |
|---|---|
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| A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomelatoma |
| Species: | P. torosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Drillia torosa Carpenter, 1864 (original combination) | |
Description
The whorls show an angulated shoulder bearing nodulous terminations of about ten short oblique ribs. There is no spiral sculpture. The color of the shell is burnt-brown, under an olivaceous epidermis. The nodules are whitish. The aperture is brown.
The shell of the subspecies P. t. aurantia is orange-colored, sometimes spirally striate. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off southern California, USA.
References
- MolluscaBase (2018). Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434771 on 2019-01-14
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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- Carpenter, Journ. de Conchyl., ser. 3, vol. 12, p. 146, April, 1865.
- Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 103
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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