Pleurotomella hayesiana
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| Pleurotomella hayesiana | |
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| Original image of a shell of Pleurotomella hayesiana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Pleurotomella |
| Species: | P. hayesiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurotomella hayesiana (Angas, 1871) | |
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Pleurotomella hayesiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 18 mm.
(Original description) The rather solid shell has an ovately fusiform shape. It is of a dull chalky-grey colour. The shell contains 7 whorls, angulated at the upper part, closely longitudinally ribbed and transversely ridged, forming flattened nodules at the points of intersection. The spire is sharp. The apex is purple. The aperture is elongately ovate, deep purple within. The outer lip is finely denticulated at the edge, contracted below. The posterior sinus is narrow and rather deep.[2]