Mangelia costata

Mangelia costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. costata
Binomial name
	Mangelia costata; (Pennant, 1777)
Synonyms
	Mangelia coarctata (Forbes, 1840) (junior synonym); Mangelia costata (Forbes, 1840); Mangiliella atlantica (Pallary, 1920); Murex costatus Pennant, 1777;

Mangelia costata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[2]

Description

This species occurs in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Azores and in the Mediterranean Sea.

^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
^ ^a ^b Mangelia costata (Pennant, 1777). Gofas, S. (2009). Mangelia costata (Donovan, 1804). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139272 on 5 September 2010 .

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