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Scalptia costifera

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Trigonostoma costiferum
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T. costifera
Binomial name
Trigonostoma costiferum
(Sowerby, 1832)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cancellaria constifera G.B. Sowerby I, 1832 (Spelling variation)
  • Cancellaria costifera G. B. Sowerby I, 1832

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

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania.

References

  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.