Pontiothauma

Pontiothauma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Pontiothauma
Original image of a shell of Pontiothauma abyssicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Pontiothauma
E. A. Smith, 1895
Type species
Pontiothauma mirabile
E. A. Smith, 1895

Description

The fusiform shell is not umbilicate, anteriorly rostrate and obliquely folded. The shell 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.

The enormously expanded rostrum, and the absence of eyes, radula, and operculum, at once separate this genus from any which it approaches in shell-character.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Pontiothauma include:

Species brought into synonymy

References
  1. Pontiothauma E.A. Smith, 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  2. E.A. Smith (1895) I.—Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator,’ commander C. F. Oldham, R.N.—Series II., No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged in the bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea during the season 1893–94; The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology Volume: 16 (6)
  3. Pontiothauma abyssicola Smith E. A., 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  4. Pontiothauma minus Smith E. A., 1906. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. Pontiothauma mirabile Smith E. A., 1895. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  6. Pontiothauma pacei Smith E. A., 1906. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. Pontiothauma hedleyi Dell, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  8. Pontiothauma viridis (Okutani, 1966). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  • Pace, S. "On the Anatomy of the Prosobranch Genus Pontiothauma, EA Smith." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 28.186 (1903): 455-462.
  • Smith, Edgar A. "I.—Natural history notes from HM Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator,’commander CF Oldham, RN—Series II., No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged in the bay of Bengal and the Arabian sea during the season 1893–94." Journal of Natural History 16.91 (1895): 1-19.
  • Smith, Edgar A. "XXV.—Natural history notes form RIMS ‘Investigator.’—Series III., No. 10. On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea." Journal of Natural History 18.105 (1906): 157-175.
  • Powell, A. W. B. "Mollusca of Antarctic and Subantarctic seas." Biogeography and ecology in Antarctica. Springer, Dordrecht, 1965. 333-380.
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