''Pleurotomella innocentia'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Raphitomidae Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". ''Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 39 ...

.MolluscaBase (2018). Pleurotomella innocentia (Dell, 1990). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881094 on 2018-02-20 This species is considered by Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych (2013) as a synonym of ''Falsimohnia minor'' Strebel, 1908.

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm. The shell is spiraled and generally a brownish or white color. It is pointed at the top.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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and off

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, Rep. South Africa, and in the

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, Antarctica

References

* Dell, Richard Kenneth. "Antarctic Mollusca: with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea." Royal Society of New Zealand, 1990. * Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp.

External links

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Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308

Kantor, Yuri I., and M. G. Harasewych (2013). "Antarctica, where turrids and whelks converge: A revision of Falsimohnia Powell, 1951 (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea) and a description of a new genus." The Nautilus 127 (2013): 43–56
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Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153–206

Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207–213.
innocentia Gastropods described in 1990 {{Raphitomidae-stub