Pleurotomella anomalapex

Pleurotomella anomalapex
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella anomalapex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 millimetres (0.31 in).

Shell and protoconch of Pleurotomella anomalapex (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Falkland Islands and Patagonia; off the South Sandwich Islands and the Scotia Sea.[1]

References

  • Powell, Arthur William Baden. Antarctic and subantarctic mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Vol. 26. University Press, 1951.
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