Pyrgocythara hamata

Pyrgocythara hamata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Pyrgocythara hamata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Pyrgocythara
Species:	P. hamata
Binomial name
Pyrgocythara hamata (d' Orbigny, 1841)
Synonyms[1]
Mangelia cerea Carpenter, P.P., 1865 Mangelia hamata Carpenter, 1865 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.3 mm.

(Original description) This flesh-tinted orange species is easily recognized by the varicose lip, sloping off to a sharp edge; by the deeply cut posterior notch, giving the smooth aperture a hooked appearance and with an intense color in its interior; by the sharp ridges, traversed by distant spiral threads. The protoconch contains two smooth, globose whorls. The subsequent six whorls are moderately long, subangulate and with impressed suture. They are crossed by 10–12 acute longitudinal ribs that continue to the base of the shell. The interstices are concave.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pacific Panama.