Pseudomelatoma torosa | |
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A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Pseudomelatoma |
Species: | P. torosa
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Binomial name | |
Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864)
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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]
The whorls show an angulated shoulder bearing nodulous terminations of about ten short oblique ribs. There is no spiral sculpture. The color of the shell is burnt-brown, under an olivaceous epidermis. The nodules are whitish. The aperture is brown.
The shell of the subspecies P. t. aurantia is orange-colored, sometimes spirally striate. [2]
This marine species occurs off southern California, USA.