{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = Pyramidella corrugata 001.png | image_caption = Drawing of a shell of ''Pyramidella corrugata'' | taxon = Pyramidella corrugata | authority = Lamarck, 1822 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}
'''''Pyramidella corrugata''''' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.<ref name="WoRMS">WoRMS (2010). ''Pyramidella corrugata''. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208420 on 2012-01-12</ref><ref>Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56</ref>
==Description== The length of the shell attains 23 mm.
The elongated shell is slender and turreted. It is white, with small sparse, scattered yellow spots near the suture. The pointed spire is formed of nine or ten slightly convex whorls, the surface of which is covered with longitudinal folds, also convex, very distinct, smooth, numerous, regular, prolonged even to the summit of the whorls, and accompanied with some small, scattered, yellowish spots. Numerous compressed transverse striae are found between the interstices. The suture is linear. The narrow aperture is ovate, elongated, and slightly narrowed at its extremities. It forms at its base a little depression in an oblique siphonal canal. The outer lip is thin and arcuate. The columella is imperforate at its base. iI is slightly arcuated, thin, furnished with three folds, the first more strongly marked than the others, which are a little oblique.<ref name="Kiener">[https://archive.org/details/generalspeciesic00kien Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837] (described as ''Pyramidella corrugata'')</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/manualconch08tryorich#page/n5/mode/2up G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 305; 1889]</ref>
==Distribution== This marine species occurs in the following locations:<ref name="WoRMS" /> * Tanzania * La Réunion.
==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13181853 Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp]
==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.eol.org/pages/4812732 Encyclopedia of Life] * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208420 World Register of Marine Species]
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Category:Pyramidellidae Category:Gastropods described in 1822 Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck