Biology:Merica oblonga

Short description: Species of gastropod

Merica oblonga
Shell of Merica oblonga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Merica
Species:	M. oblonga
Binomial name
Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Synonyms
Cancellaria bifasciata Deshayes, 1830 Cancellaria decussata Nyst, 1838 (non Sowerby, 1832) Cancellaria oblonga G.B. Sowerby I, 1825

Merica oblonga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

References

• Verhecken A. (1997). Mollusca Gastropoda: Arafura Sea Cancellariidae collected during the Karubar cruise. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 172: 295–323
• Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682
• Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

External links

• Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1–8

Wikidata ☰ Q6819204 entry