Bivetiella cancellata

Bivetiella cancellata
Apertural view of shell of Bivetiella cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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]

Description

The shell size varies between 20mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

A fossil specimen from the Pliocene of Italy

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

• Verhecken A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema : 29(2): 281-364

External links

• Gastropods.com : Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata; accessed : 29 October 2010