Pleurotomella hypermnestra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Pleurotomella hypermnestra | |
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| Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella hypermnestra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Pleurotomella |
| Species: | P. hypermnestra
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleurotomella hypermnestra Melvill, 1912
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
The small, pale, straw-white shell has a fusiform shape. It contains eight whorls. The three whorls in the protoconch are ochreous and smooth. The subsequent whorls are impressed at the suture. The longitudinal ribs are not numerous (about ten in the body whorl). The few spiral lirae are undeveloped. The oblong- quadrate interstices are depressed. The aperture is oblong, incrassate and straw-white on its interior. The sinus is wide and not deep. The siphonal canal is short. The columella is rather straight and simple. [2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.
References edit
- ^ a b Pleurotomella hypermnestra Melvill, 1912. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ^ Melvill, James Cosmo. "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea." Journal of Molluscan Studies 10.3 (1912): 240-254
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.