Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys

Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys
	Original image of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys with abapertural view and close-up of sculpture.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Pseudorhaphitoma
Species:	P. ichthys
Binomial name
	Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys; (Melvill, 1910)
Synonyms
	Cythara deliciosa Barnard, 1958; Eucithera [sic] deliciosa Giles & Gosliner, 1983; Mangelia (Paraclathurella) maria Thiele, 1925; Mangilia ichthys Melvill, 1910 (original combination);

Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4.5 mm and 9 mm.

The small, delicate, fusiform shell has a light or pinkish brown color. It contains 7 whorls, of which two bulbous whorls in the protoconch. The third whorl is slightly crenulate. The other whorls show six ribs, continuous with each other and broadened. They are impressed at the shallow suture. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is very wide. The sinus is broad, short and shallow and not extending far towards the margin of the outer lip. The columella is straight and is not produced at its base. The narrow siphonal canal is short and rather straight.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf, off South Africa and off Taiwan.

References

^ ^a ^b WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys (Melvill, 1910). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434786 on 2018-01-06
^ Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI.

R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 2; Annals of the Natal Museum 34, pp 317 - 367 (1993)

External links

Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
"Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma ichthys (Melvill, 1910). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434786 on 2018-01-06

[2] Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI.

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