Pseudorhaphitoma brionae is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma brionae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhaphitoma |
| Species: | P. brionae
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| Pseudorhaphitoma brionae (G.B. Sowerby III, 1888)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 6 mm
The dark red shell has a very long and turreted spire. The shell contains 9 whorls. It is smooth, and the very fine spiral striae can only be seen through a lens. The 10 longitudinal ribs are rounded and smooth, but become acuminate at the base of the shell. The body whorl is small and slightly convex. The oblong aperture is broad in the middle and narrow at the extremities. The columella is perpendicular. The outer lip is arcuate and slightly insinuate at the base.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine genus occurs off Hong Kong.
References edit
- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma brionae (Sowerby III, 1888). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432869 on 2018-01-02
- ^ G.B. Sowerby III, Descriptions of fourteen new Species of Shells; The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology v. 20 (1890)
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External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.