Prosipho pellitus

Prosipho pellitus
Shell of Prosipho pellitus (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Prosiphonidae
Genus:	Prosipho
Species:	P. pellitus
Binomial name
Prosipho pellitus Thiele, 1912

Prosipho pellitus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Prosiphonidae, the true whelks. ^[1]

Description

(Original description in German) The shell is 5.3 mm high and 2 mm wide, formed from 6.5 whorls, of which the first two are smooth and rounded. The remaining whorls are covered with spiral ridges, each with three ridges, while the last one has a fourth in the continuation of the suture. The whorls are somewhat flattened and separated by an impressed suture. The short siphonal canal is sharply set off upwards; the aperture is ovoid with a slanted breathing tube. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica.

References

1. Prosipho pellitus Thiele, 1912 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.
2. Thiele, J. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. 13". Zoologie. 5 (2). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links

• Thiele, J. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. 13". Zoologie. 5 (2).