Biology:Pleurotomella anomalapex

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Pleurotomella anomalapex
Pleurotomella anomalapex (YPM IZ 069985).jpeg
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella anomalapex
Scientific classification edit
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.

External links

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

Wikidata ☰ Q3720888 entry