title: Pseudorhaphitoma averina
text: # Pseudorhaphitoma averina
  
  Pseudorhaphitoma averina is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2.75 mm.
  
  (Original description) A stout, pure white little shell with an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains 7 whorls of which two in the protoconch. It has strong ribs (7 in the body whorl), crossed by alternate strong or thin lirae, and gemmuled at the points of junction. The ovate aperture is narrow. The incrassate outer lip and the columellar area are beautifully suffused with orange-yellow.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine genus occurs off Pakistan
  
  