Rhodopetoma renaudi

Rhodopetoma renaudi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Rhodopetoma renaudi
Original image of a shell of Rhodopetoma renaudi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Rhodopetoma
Species:
R. renaudi
Binomial name
Rhodopetoma renaudi
(Arnold, 1903)
Synonyms[1]

Drillia renaudi Arnold, 1903

Description

The length of the shell attains 15.8 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

(Original description) The small shell is fusiform and turreted. The apex is blunt. The shell contains eight whorls. These are sharply angular, with an angle about two-fifths distance from the anterior margin of whorl. The upper and lower surfaces are flat. About fifteen oblique nodes ornament the angle and extend down on the lower portion of the whorl, becoming obsolete before reaching the suture. The nodes become obsolete on the body whorl. The suture is deeply impressed and distinct. The aperture is short, elliptical and oblique. The posterior sinus is broad and shallow. The anterior sinus is long and straight. The columella is incrusted within. The body whorl is angular, ventricose, much produced and narrow below, smooth, except for very faint incremental lines.

The species is distinguishable by the smooth, ventricose body whorl, sharply angulated whorls, nodose angle, and a long siphonal canal.[2]

Distribution

This rare species occurs off California, USA. One specimen has been found from Pliocene strata and one (type) from lower San Pedro series of Deadman Island.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Rhodopetoma renaudi (Arnold, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=849172 on 2019-01-23
  2. Ralph Arnold, The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 1903 v. 3
  • McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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