Pseudostomatella orbiculata

Pseudostomatella orbiculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Pseudostomatella orbiculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Pseudostomatella
Species:
P. orbiculata
Binomial name
Pseudostomatella orbiculata
(A. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms
  • Stomatella orbiculata A. Adams, 1850

Distribution

This marine species is found in raised beach deposits off the Algoa Bay along the South African east coast.

References
  1. Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502


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