Biology:Phenatoma rosea

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Phenatoma rosea
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Two shells of Phenatoma rosea (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Phenatoma
Species:
P. rosea
Binomial name
Phenatoma rosea
(Quoy & Gaimard), 1833
Synonyms[1]
  • Phenatoma novaezelandiae (Reeve, 1843)
  • Drillia novaezelandiae Reeve, 1843
  • Pleurotoma rosea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Phenatoma rosea, or the pink tower shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 23 mm and 34 mm; its width is 11 mm. The shell is spirally sulcate and longitudinally striate0 The suture is slightly impressed, marginate and subcrenulate. The; sinus is rather broad and shallow. It has a rose-ash color, purple-rose within the aperture.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs is endemic to New Zealand and Tasmania

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 WoRMS (2009). Phenatoma rosea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434595 on 14 August 2011
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Drillia novaezelandiae)
  • Quoy, Jean Rene Constant, Paul Gaimard, and Jules Dumont D'Urville. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par orde du Roi pendant les années 1826-1829 sous le commandement de m. J. Dumont D'Urville: troisième division, Zoologie. Tastu, 1833.

External links

Further reading

  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1


Wikidata ☰ Q3173927 entry