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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [1]
| Pseudomelatoma torosa | |
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| A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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) | |
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]
This marine species occurs off southern California, USA.
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