• Source: Pseudomelatoma

Pseudomelatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.




Description


(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.




Species


Species within the genus Pseudomelatoma include:

Pseudomelatoma eburnea (Carpenter, 1865)
Pseudomelatoma moesta (Carpenter, 1864)
Pseudomelatoma penicillata (Carpenter, 1864)
Pseudomelatoma sticta S. S. Berry, 1956
Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864)
Species brought into synonymy

Pseudomelatoma grippi (Dall, 1919): synonym of Ophiodermella grippi (Dall, 1919)
Pseudomelatoma redondoensis T. Burch, 1938: synonym of Burchia semiinflata (Grant & Gale, 1931) (original combination)




References






External links


Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Pseudomelatoma
• Pseudomelatoma penicillata
• Pseudomelatoma sticta
• Pseudomelatoma moesta
• Pseudomelatoma torosa
• Pseudomelatoma eburnea
• Naticidae
• Crassispira semiinflata
• Cypraeidae
• Pseudomelatomidae