Nipponaphera quasilla

Nipponaphera quasilla
Nipponaphera quasilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Subfamily: Cancellariinae
Genus: Nipponaphera
Species: N. quasilla
Binomial name
Nipponaphera quasilla
(Petit, 1987)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cancellaria cretacea E.A. Smith, 1899 (non Nyst, 1881)
  • Cancellaria quasilla Petit, 1987

Nipponaphera quasilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

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Description

The shell size is 25 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed along Somalia; Southern India and Southern Burma

References

  1. ^ a b Nipponaphera quasilla (Petit, 1987) .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513941  on 31 October 2010.
  • Bouchet P. & Petit R.E. (2008). New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae. The Nautilus 122(1): 1-18.

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