Clathromangelia pellucida
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| Clathromangelia pellucida | |
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| Drawing of Clathromangelia pellucida | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clathurellidae [1] |
| Genus: | Clathromangelia |
| Species: | C. pellucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Clathromangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846) | |
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Clathromangelia pellucida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[2]
Description
The ovate shell is attenuated at both ends, smooth, transparent, shining, longitudinally closely ribbed. The color of the shell is whitish, brown at the base, sometimes with three narrow, interrupted bands. [3]
Distribution
References
- ↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clathromangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 August 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI? p. 266; 1884 (described as Mangilia pellucida)
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
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