Pontiothauma mirabile

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

Pontiothauma mirabile
Original image of a shell of Pontiothauma mirabile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pontiothauma
Species:
P. mirabile
Binomial name
Pontiothauma mirabile
Smith E. A., 1895

Description

The length of the shell attains 136 mm, its diameter 52 mm.

The turreted, fusiform shell is white. The epidermis is more or less assumed. The spire is elongated and acuminate. The shell contains probably 10 whorls with seven whorls remaining. These are convex, slowly and regularly increasing. They contain oblique and flexuous ribs (with their upper part and lower part fading away) and strong and close spiral lirae. The body whorl is somewhat swollen. The aperture is elongate and measures about half the length of the shell. The siphonal canal is short. The columella is nearly straight. The outer lip is not incrassate and shows a wide, but not deep, sinus at the suture. It is prominent and arcuate in the middle. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Bay of Bengal.

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References
  1. Pontiothauma mirabile Smith E. A., 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  2. E.A. Smith (1895) I.—Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator,’ commander C. F. Oldham, R.N.—Series II., No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged in the bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea during the season 1893–94; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology Volume: 16 (6)
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
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