Mangelia costata

Mangelia costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae [1]
Genus: Mangelia
Species: M. costata
Binomial name
Mangelia costata
(Pennant, 1777)
Synonyms[2]
  • Mangelia coarctata (Forbes, 1840) (junior synonym)
  • Mangelia costata (Forbes, 1840)
  • Mangiliella atlantica (Pallary, 1920)
  • Murex costatus Pennant, 1777

Mangelia costata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Azores and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  2. ^ a b Mangelia costata (Pennant, 1777). Gofas, S. (2009). Mangelia costata (Donovan, 1804). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139272 on 5 September 2010.