title: Pseudomelatoma torosa
text: # Pseudomelatoma torosa
  
  Pseudomelatoma torosa is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The whorls show an angulated shoulder bearing nodulous terminations of about ten short oblique ribs. There is no spiral sculpture. The color of the shell is burnt-brown, under an olivaceous epidermis. The nodules are whitish. The aperture is brown.
  
  The shell of the subspecies P. t. aurantia is orange-colored, sometimes spirally striate.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs off southern California, USA.
  
  