Biology:Mangelia crebricostata
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Mangelia |
| Species: | M. crebricostata
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| Mangelia crebricostata Carpenter, 1864
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Mangelia crebricostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
Compared with Oenopota aleutica (W.H. Dall, 1871), in Mangelia crebricostata the whorls are not so much angulated, the ribs pass from the suture to the lower end of the whorl, and the aperture is narrower and longer. The shell is also much more slender and smaller.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs from Forrester Island, Alaska, and Vancouver Island, Canada, to Monterey, California , United States.
References
- ↑ Mangelia crebricostata Carpenter, 1864. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2011.
- ↑ W.H. Dall, Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks from the West Coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described; American Journal of Concholohy vol. 7, 1871
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External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5228585 entry
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