Biology:Mangelia elegantissima

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Mangelia elegantissima
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. elegantissima
Binomial name
Mangelia elegantissima
E.W. Vredenburg, 1921

Mangelia elegantissima is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Not to be confounded with Mangelia elegantissima (Melvill & Standen, 1903), originally described as Cythara elegantissima and now a synonym of Paraclathurella gracilenta (Reeve, 1843)

Description

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Myanmar

References

  1. E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q39050104 entry