Pleurotomella eulimenes

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

Pleurotomella eulimenes
Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella eulimenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pleurotomella
Species:
P. eulimenes
Binomial name
Pleurotomella eulimenes
(Melvill, 1904)
Synonyms[1]

Daphnella eulimenes Melvill, 1906

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.

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References

  • Melvill J.C. (1904). Descriptions of twelve new species and one variety of marine Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1902–1904. Journal of Malacology. 11(4): 79-85
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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