Atlantilux gemmata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae |
| Genus: | Atlantilux |
| Species: | A. gemmata
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| Binomial name | |
| Atlantilux gemmata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
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Atlantilux gemmata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
Description
[edit](Original description) The small shell is rather fusiform. It is brown and smooth. The spire is as long as aperture. The whorls are rather angular, ribbed above the middle. The ribs are jewelled with oval white spots.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Atlantilux gemmata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=957169 on 2018-12-31
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Mitra. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 4 (31-32): 1–46, pls 352–379. London, privately published.
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- Adams, C. B. (1845). Specierum novarum conchyliorum, in Jamaica repertorum, synopsis. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 1-17
- Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626