Pseudomelatoma torosa
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| Pseudomelatoma torosa | |
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| A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomelatoma |
| Species: | P. torosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Drillia torosa Carpenter, 1864 (original combination) | |
Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
- Subspecies
- Pseudomelatoma torosa aurantia Carpenter, 1864
The whorls show an angulated shoulder bearing nodulous terminations of about ten short oblique ribs. There is no spiral sculpture. The color of the shell is burnt-brown, under an olivaceous epidermis. The nodules are whitish. The aperture is brown.
The shell of the subspecies P. t. aurantia is orange-colored, sometimes spirally striate.[2]
