Spirotropis carinata
| 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] | |
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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]
Distribution
This fossil species was found in the Mediterranean Sea
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Spirotropis carinata (Bivona, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 November 2011.
- ↑ 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.