Pseudorhaphitoma scitula

Pseudorhaphitoma scitula is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
Shell and protoconch of Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:
P. scitula
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma scitula
(E. A. Smith, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mangilia scitula Melvill, 1917
  • Pleurotoma (Mangilia) scitula E. A. Smith, 1888 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.7 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.

This abundant little white species, has a fusiform shape narrowed below, with swollen upper whorls, and coarse spiral lirae, hexagonal, with very beautiful spiral, minutely punctate striae between the lirations just mentioned. The aperture is rather small, proportionately speaking [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Pseudorhaphitoma scitula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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