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Pseudorhaphitoma scitula (E. A. Smith 1884)

Pseudorhaphitoma scitula

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Pseudorhaphitoma scitula is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.7 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.

This abundant little white species, has a fusiform shape narrowed below, with swollen upper whorls, and coarse spiral lirae, hexagonal, with very beautiful spiral, minutely punctate striae between the lirations just mentioned. The aperture is rather small, proportionately speaking [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

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Pseudorhaphitoma scitula: Brief Summary

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Pseudorhaphitoma scitula is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

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