Joculator acuminatus

Joculator acuminatus
Shell of Joculator acuminatus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Triphoroidea
Family:	Cerithiopsidae
Genus:	Joculator
Species:	J. acuminatus
Binomial name
Joculator acuminatus Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Joculator acuminatus is a species of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.^[1] It was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

References[]

• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1-262
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2016). Report on some Cerithiopsidae from Indo-Pacific area (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Bollettino Malacologico. 52(2): 98-109.
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2017). Cerithiopsidae and Newtoniellidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from New Caledonia, western Pacific. Visaya. suppl. 7: 1-175
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187.