Pseudomelatoma torosa
| Pseudomelatoma torosa | |
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| A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Pseudomelatoma |
| Species: | P. torosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudomelatoma torosa (Carpenter, 1864) | |
Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
A live Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ, the shell encrusted with pink coralline algae
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