''Pseudorhaphitoma severa'' is a small
sea snail
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, a
marine
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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 ...
mollusk in the family
Mangeliidae.
[WoRMS (2009). Pseudorhaphitoma severa (Thiele, 1925). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434801 on 2017-12-30]
Description
The length of the shell attains 6.1 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.
Distribution
This marine genus occurs off
Sumatra
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, Indonesia
References
* Thiele, J. 1925. ''Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 11''. Wiss. Ergebn. dt. Tiefsee Exped. 'Valdivia' 17(2): 37-382
External links
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)*
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severa
Gastropods described in 1925