Cancilla schepmani

Cancilla schepmani
Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Cancilla
Species:	C. schepmani
Binomial name
Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)[1]
Synonyms
Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym) Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name) Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003) Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911) Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)

Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[2]

The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.

Description[]

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Distribution[]

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and Sulu Island, Indonesia

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• Schepman M.M. (1911) The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Rachiglossa. Siboga-Expeditie, 49d: 247-363, pls. 18–24. Leiden, E.J. Brill.
• Salisbury R. & Guillot de Suduiraut E. 2003. Three new deep-water miters (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae) from the Western Indo-Pacific with a new name for Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911. Novapex 4(1): 1-9
• Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337