Pyrene obtusa

Pyrene obtusa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.^[1]

Pyrene obtusa
Three shells of Pyrene obtusa (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Columbellidae
Genus:	Pyrene
Species:	P. obtusa
Binomial name
Pyrene obtusa (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Synonyms[1]
Buccinum lacteum Kiener, 1834 Colombella uvania Duclos, P.L. 1840 Columbella funiculata Souverbie, M. & Montrouzier, R.P. 1865 Columbella obtusa G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 (basionym) Columbella tringa var. tankervillei Hervier, 1899 Columbella zelina Duclos, 1835 Columbella zelina var. cylindra Hervier, 1899 Pyrene lactea (Kiener, 1834) Pyrene obtusa curta Schmeltz, J.D.K. 1874. Pyrene tankervillei (Hervier, 1899)

Description

The shell size varies between 11 mm and 18 mm

The small shell is pretty thin, ovate, conical and smooth. It is of a diaphanous white. The sutures are indistinctly apparent. The spire is composed of six convex whorls, ornamented at their base with spots of a duller white. The body whorl is as large as all the others, striated at base, and surrounded, towards the middle, with small, distant spots, articulated by a reddish line. The aperture is ovate. The outer lip denticulated within, and thickened outwardly, even to the base of the shell.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and Mauritius and Réunion and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Queensland)