Pleurotomella innocentia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Pleurotomella innocentia | |
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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. innocentia
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| Binomial name | |
| Pleurotomella innocentia (Strebel, 1905)
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This species is considered by Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych (2013) as a synonym of Falsimohnia minor Strebel, 1908.
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4 mm. The shell is spiraled and generally a brownish or white color. It is pointed at the top.[2]
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off South Georgia Island and off Port Alfred, Rep. South Africa, and in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Pleurotomella innocentia (Dell, 1990). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881094 on 2018-02-20
- ^ Hardy, Eddie. "Typhlodaphne innocentia". www.gastropods.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- Dell, Richard Kenneth. "Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea." Royal Society of New Zealand, 1990.
- Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.
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.
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308
- Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych (2013). "Antarctica, where turrids and whelks converge: A revision of Falsimohnia Powell, 1951 (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea) and a description of a new genus." The Nautilus 127 (2013): 43–56
- "Typhlodaphne innocentia". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153–206
- Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207–213.