Criscione, Francesco;Hallan, Anders
Pontiothauma
Sign in to savePontiothauma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
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It sits within the topics Gastropod genera, Pontiothauma and Raphitomidae.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyRaphitomidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Raphitomidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK, AM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Antarctica, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Raphitomidae
- Image
- Pontiothauma abyssicola 001.jpg
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- taxon name
- Pontiothauma
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- References
- External links
Pontiothauma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
==Description== The fusiform shell is not umbilicate, anteriorly rostrate and obliquely folded, It is spirally furrowed by lirae. The aperture ends in a short siphonal canal. The simple columella is not folded. The outer lip is thin, posteriorly wide but not deeply sinuate. The shell lacks an operculum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontiothauma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.