Mangelia tenuicostata

Mangelia tenuicostata
Mangelia tenuicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae [1]
Genus: Mangelia
Species: M. tenuicostata
Binomial name
Mangelia tenuicostata
Brugnone, 1868

Mangelia tenuicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[2]

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Description

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Cape Verdes and West Africa.

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. ^ Mangelia tenuicostata Brugnone, 1868.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139292 on 10 August 2011.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

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