Pleurotomella borbonica

Pleurotomella borbonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Pleurotomella borbonica
Original image of a shell (and the protoconch) of Pleurotomella borbonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Pleurotomella
Species:	P. borbonica
Binomial name
Pleurotomella borbonica J.C. Melvill, 1923

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) This delicate, small shell has an elegantly fusiform shape. It is rather narrow, and gradually attenuate upwards. Its color is white, semidiaphanous. The shell contains 7-8 whorls 7-8. The whorls of the protoconch are smooth, white, and globose. The third whorl is elegantly but microscopically decussate. The remainder are angled a little below the sutures, delicately semitransparent, regularly cancellate. The interstices are quadrate. The longitudinal ribs of the body whorl are slightly oblique. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is incrassate. The sinus is well defined, broad but very shallow. The columellar margin is fairly straight. The siphonal canal is short and a little recurved.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Réunion