| Pyramidella dolabrata | |
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| Shell of Pyramidella dolabrata Linnaeus, 1758, measuring 31.1 mm in height collected in beach drift on shore in Phillipsburg, in St. Maarten. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyramidellinae |
| Tribe: | Pyramidellini |
| Genus: | Pyramidella |
| Species: | P. dolabrata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyramidella dolabrata Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lonchaeus dolabratus Linnaeus Obeliscus dolobratus (L.) |
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Pyramidella dolabrata, common name the "giant Atlantic pyram", is a species of small to medium-sized (max size 36 mm) sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the (mostly minute) family Pyramidellidae, the pyram snails.
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This species is found in shallow water in the tropics of the Western Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Florida through the mainland Caribbean and the West Indies south to Brazil, and also in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean at Saint Helena.[1]
The maximum recorded shell length is 36 mm.[3]
The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Pyramidella dolabrata has been available since 2008.[4]
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m.[3] The maximum recorded depth is 57 m.[3]