Mangelia ceroplasta
Appearance
Mangelia ceroplasta | |
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Shell of Mangelia ceroplasta (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Mangelia |
Species: | M. ceroplasta
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Binomial name | |
Mangelia ceroplasta (Bush, 1885)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Mangilia ceroplasta Bush, 1885 |
Mangelia ceroplasta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off North Carolina, USA and Martinique.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mangelia ceroplasta (Bush, 1885). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2011.
- Bush, K. J. 1885. Additions to the shallow-water Mollusca of Cape Hatteras, N.C., dredged by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross,' in 1883 and 1884 Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 453–480, pl. 45.
External links
[edit]- * Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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