Taranis rhytismeis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
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| Original image of Taranis rhytismeis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Taranis |
| Species: | T. rhytismeis
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| Taranis rhytismeis (Melvill, 1910)
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Pleurotomella rhytismeis Melvill, 1910 | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is very small, white, and compact, with a short fusiform shape. It consists of six whorls, with the two apical whorls being smooth and bulbous, while the remaining whorls are deeply impressed at the sutures and sharply angled at the midpoint. The shell is adorned with oblique ribs and pronounced spiral ridges. The body whorl is sharply angled at the periphery and features nine spiral ridges extending toward the base. The aperture is ovate, with the outer lip angled at the midpoint, and the columella is nearly straight. [2]
The wrinkled sculpture and strong median peripheral angulation distinguish this small white species. Only a specimen or two have been found in 1910.
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman.
References
edit- ^ a b Taranis rhytismeis (Melvill, 1910). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
- ^ J.C. Melvill (1910) Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History; 8th ser. vol. VI
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- J.C.Melvill (1917), A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and North Arabian Sea, as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 1893-1914; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. vol. 12 (1917)