Bivetiella cancellata

Bivetiella cancellata
	Apertural view of shell of Bivetiella cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Bivetiella
Species:	B. cancellata
Binomial name
	Bivetiella cancellata; (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
	Buccinella rotundata Perry, G., 1811; Buccinum pyrozonias Gmelin, 1791; Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767); Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata var. elongata Kobelt, 1904; Cancellaria cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767); Cancellaria cancellata var. elongata Kobelt, 1904; Cancellaria cancellata var. infracosticillata Sacco, 1894; Cancellaria cancellata var. minor Almera & Bofill, 1884; Cancellaria costata Sowerby, G.B. I, 1822; Cantharus triplicatus Röding, P.F., 1798; Murex scabriculus Linnaeus, 1758 (Declared nomen oblitum under ICZN Art. 23.9 by Verhecken (2007)); Murex scabriusculus Linnaeus, 1767; Voluta cancellata Linnaeus, 1767;

Bivetiella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

This species occurs in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa and Angola.

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