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Joculator priorai

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Joculator priorai
Shell of Joculator priorai (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Family: Cerithiopsidae
Genus: Joculator
Species:
J. priorai
Binomial name
Joculator priorai
Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Joculator priorai is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiopsidae.[1]

The species was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.

References

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  • Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1-262.
  • Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187