Pseudorhaphitoma calcata is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma calcata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhaphitoma |
| Species: | P. calcata
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| Pseudorhaphitoma calcata (Hedley, 1909)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 3.6 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description) The small, solid shell is ovate and turreted. Its colour is uniform grey.. On the holotype four whorls are remaining (the apex missing in the only example seen]).
Sculpture : oblique, wave-like, radial folds, five to a whorl, expanded and projecting prominently at the summit of each whorl. The whole surface overrun by fine, close-packed, spiral threads. The aperture is linear. The anal sulcus is an almost closed tube at the top of a bold varix. The outer lip is insinuate near the base. The siphonal canal is very short. The subtubular posterior notch and the closely corded sculpture are both peculiar.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine genus occurs in the Gulf of Carpentaria and off Queensland and Hope Island, Australia
References edit
- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma calcata (Hedley, 1909). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432870 on 2018-01-01
- ^ Ch. Hedley (1909), Mollusca from the Hope Islands, north Queensland; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 34 p. 458
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links edit
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.