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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pseudomelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[2]
Pseudomelatoma | |
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A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Pseudomelatoma Dall, 1918[1] |
Type species | |
Drillia penicillata Carpenter, 1865 | |
Species | |
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(Original description) There is a group of species typified by Pleurotoma penicillata Carpenter which in sculpture and periostracum closely resemble the African Melatoma but their operculum has an apical nucleus and is long and narrow. They may be called Pseudomelatoma. Melatoma Anthony, 1847, is quite a different thing.[3]
Species within the genus Pseudomelatoma include:
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