Pleurotomella deliciosa explained

Pleurotomella deliciosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Davis Sea and the Weddell Sea, and Ross Sea,^[1] Antarctica.

External links

• Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln, In: Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 (Erich von Drygalski, E.v. ed.), vol. 8, No. 5, Georg Reimer, Berlin.
• Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .
• Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213

Notes and References

1. Schiaparelli . Stefano . Ghiglione . Claudio . Alvaro . Maria Chiara . Griffiths . Huw J. . Linse . Katrin . 2014 . Diversity, abundance and composition in macrofaunal molluscs from the Ross Sea (Antarctica): results of fine-mesh sampling along a latitudinal gradient . Polar Biology . 37 . 6 . 871.