Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis

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

Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
Drawing of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:	P. pyramis
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis (Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Clavatula pyramis Hinds, 1843 (original combination) Daphnella (Mangilia) obeliscus (Reeve, 1843) Mangelia obeliscus Reeve, L.A. 1846 Mangilia pyramis (Hinds, 1843) Pleurotoma pyramis (Hinds, 1843)

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The white shell is angularly longitudinally sharp ribbed, six-sided, with close revolving striae.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Queensland, Australia

References

1. WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434799 on 2018-01-08
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16–21, 36–46, 255–257
• Reeve, L.A. 1846. Descriptions of new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 108-119

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• "Pseudorhaphitoma pyramis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.