Pseudomelatoma moesta is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
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| Shells of Pseudomelatoma moesta (specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomelatoma |
| Species: | P. moesta
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomelatoma moesta (Carpenter, 1864)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 30 mm, its diameter 10 mm.
The shell is dark brown under an olivaceous epidermis, with about ten curved longitudinal ribs, obsoletely nodulous on the periphery, with the whorls usually slightly constricted above it. The ribs are generally obsolete on the body whorl of adult specimens. The suture is narrowly corded, noduled and spotted. The aperture is chocolate within.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off California, USA.
References
edit- ^ a b Pseudomelatoma moesta (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Carpenter, Journ. de Conchyl., ser. 3, vol. 12, p. 146, April, 1865.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Pseudomelatoma moesta.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.