Pyramidella tarpeia

Pyramidella tarpeia
Drawing of a shell of Pyramidella tarpeia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Heterobranchia
Clade:	Euthyneura
Clade:	Panpulmonata
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Genus:	Pyramidella
Species:	P. tarpeia
Binomial name
Pyramidella tarpeia Bartsch, 1915
Synonyms
Syrnola tarpeia Bartsch, 1915

Pyramidella tarpeia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. ^[1]

This species has become a taxon inquerendum.

Description

The small, almost translucent shell has an elongate-conic shape. Its length measures 3.7 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are small, very obliquely immersed in the first of the succeeding turns, above which the rounded, tilted edge of the last volution only projects. The six whorls of the teleoconch are high between the sutures, slightly rounded, and feebly shouldered at the summit. They are marked by retractive fines of growth, and exceedingly fine, spiral striations. The sutures are well impressed. The periphery of the body whorl is well rounded. The base is somewhat prolonged, well rounded, and marked like the spire. The aperture is oval. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin. The inner lip is very short, decidedly curved, and slightly reflected and appressed. The parietal wall is covered with a moderately thick callus. ^[1]

Distribution

The type specimen of this marine species was found off Port Alfred, South Africa.

References

• Barnard K.H., 1963. Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine mollusca. Part III. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Taenioglossa. Annals of the South African Museum, 47(1): 1-199

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