Pleurotomella frigida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Pleurotomella frigida
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella frigida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
P. frigida
Binomial name
Pleurotomella frigida
Thiele, 1912
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) frigida Thiele, 1912

Description edit

The length of the shell varies between 5.2 mm and 11 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs in the Davis Sea and the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Pleurotomella frigida Thiele, 1912. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  • Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links edit

  • Thiele, Johannes. "Die antarktischen schnecken und muscheln." Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition (1901–1903) 13 (1912): 183-286 (Erich von Drygalski, E.v. ed.), vol. 8, No. 5, Georg Reimer, Berlin.
  • Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213