Pleurotomella pandionis

Pleurotomella pandionis
Shell of Pleurotomella pandionis (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Pleurotomella
Species:	P. pandionis
Binomial name
Pleurotomella pandionis A. E. Verrill, 1880
Synonyms [1]
Pleurotoma (Pleurotomella) pandionisVerrill, 1880 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 43 mm.

(Original description) The large, thick shell is dull brownish yellow, with a very acute, elevated spire. It contains nine whorls, very oblique, moderately convex, concave below the suture. The whole surface is covered with close lines of growth, which recede in a broad curve on the subsutural band. Numerous fine, unequal, raised, spiral lines cover the whole surface, except the subsutural band. The upper whorls are also crossed by sixteen to eighteen blunt, transverse ribs, about as broad as their interspaces, most elevated on the middle of the whorls, fading out above and below. The aperture is elongated and narrow. The sinus is broad and well marked, just below the suture. The siphonal canal is short and nearly straight. The operculum is absent. ^[2]

Distribution

P. pandionis can be found off the North American coastline, ranging from New Jersey south to Florida. ^[3]

References

1. Pleurotomella pandionis (A. E. Verrill, 1880) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 April 2010.
2. Verrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of recent addition to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part II - Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc, collected by the United States Fish Commission. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 3: 356-409
3. Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 668.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
• Gastropods.com: Pleurotomella (Pleurotomella) pandionis

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