Nepotilla marmorata

Nepotilla marmorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Nepotilla marmorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Nepotilla
Species:
N. marmorata
Binomial name
Nepotilla marmorata
(Verco, 1909)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella marmorata Verco, 1909
  • Nepotilla minuta marmorata (var.) (Verco, 1909)

Daphnella marmorata (Verco, 1909) is a junior homonym of Daphnella marmorata Hinds,1844 [2]

Description

Joseph Verco (1909) and J.K. Tucker (2004) considered this species as a variety of Nepotilla minuta. Verco described it as beautifully marbled with flames of white and deep blackish-brown. [3]

Charles Hedley (1922) considered it as a variety of Nepotilla mimica [4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania

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References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.



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