Priotrochus goudoti

Priotrochus goudoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Priotrochus goudoti
Shell of Priotrochus goudoti (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Subfamily:	Cantharidinae
Genus:	Priotrochus
Species:	P. goudoti
Binomial name
Priotrochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878) [1]
Synonyms[2]
Monilea (Priotrochus) chrysolamea (Martens, 1880) Monilea (Priotrochus) goudoti (Fischer, 1878) Monilea chrysolamea (Martens, 1880) Monilea goudoti (P. Fischer, 1878) Priotrochus chrysolaemus (Martens, 1880) Trochus (Priotrochus) goudoti (Fischer, 1878) Trochus chrysolaemus Martens, 1880 Trochus goudoti (Fischer, 1878)

Description

The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate, thick shell has a conoid-elongated shape. It is whitish-ashen, punctate with rose-color, maculate with spadiceous. The 6 to 7 whorls 6 are convex. They are spirally cingulate, the penultimate whorls with 8 cinguli. The body whorl is elongated, rounded in the middle, appressed below the suture, convex beneath. The aperture is ovate-subquadrate. The lip is crenulated. The columella is arcuate and delicately crenulated.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Comoros, and the Mascarene Basin.