Mangelia perforata

Mangelia perforata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. perforata
Binomial name
	Mangelia perforata; (Brusina, 1877)
Synonyms
	Cythara (Mangelia) detmersiana (Böttger, 1901); Mangelia perforata Brusina, 1931; Mangilia detmersiana Böttger, 1901; Mangilia monterosati Bellardi, 1877; Mangilia perforata (Brusina, 1877); Pleurotoma caerulans Philippi, 1856 (original description); Raphitoma (Mangilia) perforata Brusina, 1877;

Mangelia perforata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description[edit]

The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm, its diameter 2.8 mm.

This extinct marine species was found in the Middle Miocene strata in Poland and from Kostej in Transylvania.

^ Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.

Bellardi 1877. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte I, pp. 1–245, parte II, pp. 1–364. Torino.
Böttger, O. 1896, 1901, 1906, 1907. Zur Kentnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörenyer Komitat. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für aturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt, 46, 49-66; 51, 1-199; 54, 1-99; 55, 101-217.
Brusina, S. 1877. Fragmenta Vindobonesia. Journal de Conchyliologie, ser. 3, 17, 368-391.
Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.

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