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Pleurotomella anomalapex

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Pleurotomella anomalapex
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella anomalapex
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. anomalapex
Binomial name
Pleurotomella anomalapex
Powell, 1951
Synonyms[1]
  • Oenopota anomalapex Figueira and Absalão, 2010
  • Pleurotomella (Anomalotomella) anomalapex Powell, 1951· accepted, alternate representation
  • Propebela anomalapex Castellanos and Landoni, 1993

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Falkland Islands and Patagonia; off the South Sandwich Islands and the Scotia Sea.

References

  • Powell, Arthur William Baden. Antarctic and subantarctic mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Vol. 26. University Press, 1951.
Shell and protoconch of Pleurotomella anomalapex (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
  • 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.