title: Priotrochus goudoti
text: # Priotrochus goudoti
  
  Priotrochus goudoti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate, thick shell has a conoid-elongated shape. It is whitish-ashen, punctate with rose-color, maculate with spadiceous. The 6 to 7 whorls 6 are convex. They are spirally cingulate, the penultimate whorls with 8 cinguli. The body whorl is elongated, rounded in the middle, appressed below the suture, convex beneath. The aperture is ovate-subquadrate. The lip is crenulated. The columella is arcuate and delicately crenulated.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, the Comoros, and the Mascarene Basin.
  
  