Pterotyphis eos eos

Taxobox
name = "Pterotyphis eos eos"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
infraclassis = Apogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Muricoidea
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Ocenebrinae
genus = "Pterotyphis"
species = "P. eos"
subspecies = "P. eos eos"
trinomial = "Pterotyphis eos eos"
trinomial_authority = (hutton, 1873)
synonyms = "Murex eos" Hutton, 1873
"Murex angasi eos" Suter, 1913

"Pterotyphis eos eos" is a subspecies of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Distribution

This rare subspecies is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, north of Cape Colville.

Habitat

"Pterotyphis eos eos" is found under rocks at and below low tide.

hell description

The shell is narrow with three-winged lamellose varices produced above the shoulder into open-channelled upcurved short spines. Spiral sculpture is weak except at the shoulder, where there are three or four blunt nodes between the varices.

The external shell coloration is uniformly bright rose-pink, yellowish, or whitish.

The maximum shell height is 30 mm, and the maximum width is 16 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1