''Pseudorhaphitoma hexagonalis'' is a small

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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in the family

Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma hexagonalis (Reeve, 1845). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434785 on 2018-01-06

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 11 mm. The yellowish white shell shows six distant longitudinal continuous ribs, and rather close revolving striae G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

Distribution

This marine species occurs the island of

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, the Philippines, and the Kai Islands, Indonesia<.

References

R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 2; Annals of the Natal Museum 34, pp 317 - 367 (1993)

External links

Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa
* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10355193 hexagonalis Gastropods described in 1845