Pseudorhaphitoma tropica

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

Pseudorhaphitoma tropica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:
P. tropica
Binomial name
Pseudorhaphitoma tropica
(Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms[1]

Mangelia (Pseudorhaphitoma) tropica Thiele, 1925 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 5 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off Sumatra, Indonesia

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma tropica (Thiele, 1925). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434808 on 2017-12-30
  • Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 11. Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee Exped. 'Valdivia' 17(2): 37-382
  • R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 2; Annals of the Natal Museum 34, pp 317 - 367 (1993)
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Pseudorhaphitoma tropica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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