Biology:Neocancilla rufescens

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Neocancilla rufescens
Neocancilla rufescens (MNHN-IM-2013-40644).jpeg
Shell of Neocancilla rufescens (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Mitroidea
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Neocancilla
Species:
N. rufescens
Binomial name
Neocancilla rufescens
(A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mitra rufescens A. Adams, 1853
  • Subcancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853)

Neocancilla rufescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mozambique.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase (2018). Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063089 on 2019-01-04
  2. Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q60395694 entry