Pseudomelatoma moesta explained

Pseudomelatoma moesta is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

The 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.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off California, USA.

References

• Carpenter, Journ. de Conchyl., ser. 3, vol. 12, p. 146, April, 1865.

External links

• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 . 10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1 .

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences