Pseudomelatoma torosa

Pseudomelatoma torosa
A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Pseudomelatoma
Species:
P. torosa
Binomial name
Pseudomelatoma torosa
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms[1]

Drillia torosa Carpenter, 1864 (original combination)

Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [1]

Subspecies
  • Pseudomelatoma torosa aurantia Carpenter, 1864
A live Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ, the shell encrusted with pink coralline algae
  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434771 on 2019-01-14