Menathais viciani
| Menathais viciani | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Menathais |
| Species: | †M. viciani
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| Binomial name | |
| †Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018
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Menathais viciani is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018. Middle Miocene, Letkés, Hungary
Distribution[]
This species occurs in Middle Miocene deposits at Letkés, Hungary.[1] It is the first fossil representative of genus Menathais.
References[]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1115607 on 2019-01-06
- ^ Kovács Z. (2018). Description of three new species of Muricidae (Neogastropoda) from the Miocene Paratethys. Novapex. 19(1): 29-35.
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- Menathais
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- Rapaninae stubs
- Muricidae
- Rapaninae
- Miocene