Joculator modestus

Joculator modestus
Shell of Joculator modestus (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. modestus
Binomial name
Joculator modestus Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Joculator modestus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiopsidae.^[1] The species was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs off 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. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187.