Mangelia verrucosa

Mangelia verrucosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Mangelia verrucosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. verrucosa
Binomial name
Mangelia verrucosa
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Clathurella verrucosa G.B. Sowerby III, 1897
  • Mangilia verrucosa G.B. Sowerby III, 1897

This is a taxon inquirendum. G.B. Sowerby III described this species as Clathurella verrucosa, previously erroneously referred as Mangelia clathrata M. de Serres.[2] K.H. Barnard mentioned in 1958 Mangilia verrucosa Sowerby III with 11–14 axial ribs (compared to Mangilia minuscula E.A. Smith, 1910)[3]

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

gollark: While I think the code sent is free software, I don't think it is in fact labelled for LibreJS.
gollark: > All code sent to the user's browser must be free software and labeled for LibreJS or other suitable free automatic license analyzer, regardless of whether the site functions when the user disables this code. (B0)
gollark: Technically, I meet this one, because I don't think the site says Linux anywhere.
gollark: It achieves many of the B/A points, but not all.
gollark: This means that you can safely use it for all your GNU projects without [DATA EXPUNGED].

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base : Mangelia verrucosa
  2. G.B. Sowerby III (1897), Appendix to marine shells of South Africa : a catalogue of all the known species
  3. Barnard K.H. (1958), Contribution to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part 1. Gastropoda; Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa; Annals of The South African Museum v. 44 p. 73–163
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Mangilia verrucosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.