Mitrella cuspidata
Appearance
Mitrella cuspidata | |
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Shell of Mitrella cuspidata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Columbellidae |
Genus: | Mitrella |
Species: | M. cuspidata
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Binomial name | |
Mitrella cuspidata Lussi, 2009[1]
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Mitrella cuspidata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Marquesas Islands. The holotype was found in Durban Bay, South Africa.
References
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- ^ Lussi (2009). Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 64 (3) : 20–28. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ a b Mitrella cuspidata Lussi, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
- Lussi (2009). Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 64 (3) : 20-28
- Kilburn R.N. & Marais J.P. (2010) Columbellidae. pp. 60–104, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp
- Monsecour, K.; Monsecour, D. (2016). Deep-water Columbellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 291-362
- Monsecour K. & Monsecour D. (2018). Columbellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from French Polynesia. Gloria Maris. 56(4): 118–151.