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Pleurotomella allisoni
Shell of Pleurotomella allisoni (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Pleurotomella
Species:	P. allisoni
Binomial name
Pleurotomella allisoni Rehder & Ladd, 1973

Pleurotomella allisoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length (incomplete) of the shell attains 17.6 mm, its diameter 6.6 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs on Mid-Pacific Seamounts between the Marshall Islands and Hawaii at depths between 1582 m and 1617 m.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Pleurotomella allisoni Rehder & Ladd, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719673 on 2019-08-28

• Rehder H. A. & Ladd H. S. (1973) Deep and shallow-water mollusks from the Central Pacific. Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Sendai, ser. 2 (Geology) Special vol. 6 (Hatai Memorial Volume): 37-49, pl. 3.

• Gastropods.com: Pleurotomella allisoni
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.

• Pleurotomella
• Gastropods described in 1973