Phenatoma rosea

Taxobox
name = "Phenatoma rosea"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Conoidea
familia = Turridae
genus = "Phenatoma"
species = "P. rosea"
binomial = "Phenatoma rosea"
binomial_authority = (Quoy and Gaimard), 1833
synonyms = "Pleurotoma rosea" Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
"Phenatoma novaezelandiae" Reeve, 1843

"Phenatoma rosea", or the pink tower shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Habitat

The pink tower shell is found in fine sand down to depths of 90 m.

hell description

The shell is large and solid, tall-spired, strongly sculptured with broad flattened spiral ridges, with linear interspaces, the whole cut into irregular, squarish nodes by numerous linear axial grooves.

The shell coloration is pale pink, and purple-rose within the aperture.

The shell height is up to 34 mm, and width is up to 11 mm.

References

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