Phenatoma rosea

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Phenatoma rosea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Turridae
Genus: Phenatoma
Species: P. rosea
Binomial name
Phenatoma rosea
(Quoy and Gaimard), 1833
Synonyms

Pleurotoma rosea Quoy and Gaimard, 1833
Phenatoma novaezelandiae Reeve, 1843

Phenatoma rosea, or the pink tower shell, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

The pink tower shell is found in fine sand down to depths of 90 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is large and solid, tall-spired, strongly sculptured with broad flattened spiral ridges, with linear interspaces, the whole cut into irregular, squarish nodes by numerous linear axial grooves.

The shell coloration is pale pink, and purple-rose within the aperture.

The shell height is up to 34 mm, and width is up to 11 mm.

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