Spirotropis carinata

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Spirotropis carinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Spirotropis
Species: S. carinata
Binomial name
Spirotropis carinata
(Bivona, 1838)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia carinata (Bivona, 1838)
  • Pleurotoma acuta Sismonda, 1842
  • Pleurotoma carinata Bivona, 1838

Spirotropis carinata is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1]

Taxonomy

The name Spirotropis carinata has been misapplied to a Recent species from the Atlantic coasts of Europe. The true carinata is a fossil species from the Mediterranean. The valid name for the Recent species is Spirotropis confusa. [2]

Description

Distribution

This fossil species was found in the Mediterranean Sea

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Spirotropis carinata (Bivona, 1838).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 November 2011.
  2. Janssen, R. (1993) Taxonomy, evolution and spreading of the turrid genus Spirotropis (Gastropoda: Turridae). Scripta Geologica, Special Issue 2, 237–261.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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