CZ EN
SEARCH  

Taxon profile

species

Pseudorissoina exigua Hedley, 1903

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Pyramidellidae »  genus Pseudorissoina

Images

Pseudorissoina exigua

Author: Hedley

Taxon in country check-lists*

* List of countries might not be complete

Description

Shell small, smooth, glossy, solid, imper-forate, ovate. Colour white. No sculpture. Whorls three, plus a swollen heterostrophe two-whorled protoconch, last whorl exceeding the remainder of the shell, subangled at the periphery. Aperture pyriform, slightly oblique, outer lip simple, columella broad, reflected, margins united by a callus. Height, 1,25 mm.; diam., 0,6 mm. Six specimens from 41-50 fathoms off Cape Three Points.
Hedley, 1903, Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Part 2: Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Contributions to BioLib

Help us to expand this encyclopedia! If you are logged in, you can add new subtaxa, vernacular and scientific names, texts, images or intertaxon relationships for this taxon.

Comments