Bivetiella cancellata

Bivetiella cancellata
Bivetiella cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Bivetiella
Species: B. cancellata
Binomial name
Bivetiella cancellata
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
  • Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Voluta cancellata Linnaeus, 1767
  • Cantharus triplicatus Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Buccinella rotundata Perry, G., 1811
  • Cancellaria costata Sowerby, G.B. I, 1822

Bivetiella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 20mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa and Angola.

References

  1. ^ Bivetiella cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341244 on 29 October 2010.

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