Clathromangelia pellucida

Clathromangelia pellucida
Clathromangelia pellucida
Drawing of Clathromangelia pellucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clathurellidae [1]
Genus: Clathromangelia
Species: C. pellucida
Binomial name
Clathromangelia pellucida
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[2]
  • Mangelia pellucida Reeve, 1846
  • Mangilia pellucida Reeve, 1846

Clathromangelia pellucida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae.[2]

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Description

The ovate shell is attenuated at both ends, smooth, transparent, shining, longitudinally closely ribbed. The color of the shell is whitish, brown at the base, sometimes with three narrow, interrupted bands. [3]

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  2. ^ a b Clathromangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433233 on 16 August 2011.
  3. ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI? p. 266; 1884 (described as Mangilia pellucida)
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

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