Pyramidella dolabrata

Pyramidella dolabrata
Shell of Pyramidella dolabrata Linnaeus, 1758, measuring 31.1 mm in height collected in beach drift on shore in Phillipsburg, in St. Maarten.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Subfamily:	Pyramidellinae
Tribe:	Pyramidellini
Genus:	Pyramidella
Species:	P. dolabrata
Binomial name
Pyramidella dolabrata Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Lonchaeus dolabratus Linnaeus Obeliscus dolobratus (L.)

Pyramidella dolabrata, common name the giant Atlantic pyram, is a species of small to medium-sized (max size 36 mm) sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the (mostly minute) family Pyramidellidae, the pyram snails.

Subspecies

• Pyramidella dolabrata terebellum (Müller, 1774)^[1]

Distribution

This species is found in shallow water in the tropics of the Western Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Florida through the mainland Caribbean and the West Indies south to Brazil, and also in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean at Saint Helena.[1]

• Angola^[2]

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 36 mm.^[3]

Anatomy

The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Pyramidella dolabrata has been available since 2008.^[4]

Habitat

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m.^[3] The maximum recorded depth is 57 m.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} WoRMS (2010). Pyramidella dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208421 on 2011-03-15
2. ^ Oliveira, M. P.; Rezende G. J. R. & Coelho L. F. (1975). "Contribuição ao conhecimento da malacofauna de Angola" (in Portuguese). Boletim do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e Geociências (Brazil: UFJF) (10): 1–17. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
4. ^ Grande C., Templado J. & Zardoya R. 2008. Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:61. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-61

External links

• Pyramidella dolabrata at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
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