Bivetiella cancellata | |
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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) |
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Bivetiella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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The shell size varies between 20mm and 50 mm.
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.