Neocancilla rufescens
Neocancilla rufescens | |
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Shell of Neocancilla rufescens (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
Family: | Mitridae |
Subfamily: | |
Genus: | Neocancilla |
Species: | N. rufescens
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Binomial name | |
Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Neocancilla rufescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] [2]
Distribution[]
This marine species occurs off Mozambique.
References[]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063089 on 2019-01-04
- ^ 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.
External links[]
Categories:
- Neocancilla
- Gastropods described in 1853
- Mitridae stubs