''Anarithma pylei'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

, a marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Mitromorphidae Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea Conoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusc, mo ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Anarithma pylei (Chino & Stahlschmidt, 2014). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1567960 on 2025-07-09

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

References

* Chino M. & Stahlschmidt P., 2014. ''Description of four new shallow water Mitromorpha species from the western Pacific (Gastropoda: Mitromorphidae).'' Visaya 4(2):: 21–27 *

External links

MNHN, Paris: ''Mitromorpha pylei'' (holotype)
* pylei Gastropods described in 2014 {{mitromorpha-stub