Pseudorhaphitoma phaea

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

Pseudorhaphitoma phaea
Original image of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma phaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:
P. phaea
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma phaea
(Melvill & Standen, 1901)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia phaea Melvill & Standen, 1901 (original combination)

Description

A very small, ovate-fusiform, angled species, of a peculiar dark brown colour. It contains 7 whorls, of which two in the protoconch. The third whorl is very much angulate and longitudinally crenulate. The shell shows but few incrassate ribs (six in the body whorl), crossed by sparse lirae (about eighth in the body whorl), commencing at the centre of each whorl. The brownish aperture is narrow. The incrassate outer lip is slightly effuse. The sinus is wide and short. The purplish-red columella is straight.[2]

The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1 mm.

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off Pakistan.

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma phaea (Melvill & Standen, 1901). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434797 on 2017-12-28
  2. Melvill & Standen (1901) Mollusks from the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. v. 2, 1901 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.
  • "Pseudorhaphitoma averina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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