''Thatcheriasyrinx orientis'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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

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 ...

. ;Subspecies: * ''Thatcheriasyrinx orientis kawamurai'' (Kuroda, 1959) (found off the Ogasawara Islands, Japan)

Description

The length of the shell attains 9.5 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf andf the

Gulf of Oman The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ar, خليج عمان ''khalīj ʿumān''; fa, دریای عمان ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ar, خلیج مکران ''khalīj makrān''; fa, دریای مکرا� ...

; and off Hawaii (this is probably a species of ''

Aliceia ''Aliceia'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae. The taxonomic position of ''Aliceia'' is rather uncertain. It may as well belong to the family Turridae (resembling genus '' Lucerapex'') or to the fa ...

'')

References

* Chino, M. & Stahlschmidt, P. (2021). Description of a new Famelica species (Gastropoda: Raphitomidae) from the Philippines. Gloria Maris. 60(4): 184-187.

External links

Melvill, Descriptions of twenty-three species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 6 (1904-1905)
orientis Gastropods described in 1904 {{Raphitomidae-stub