Cancilla isabella

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

Cancilla isabella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Cancilla
Species:
C. isabella
Binomial name
Cancilla isabella
(Swainson, 1831)
Synonyms
  • Tiara isabella Swainson, 1831
  • Mitra morchii Adams, 1855
  • Mitra herklotsiana Dohrn, 1861
  • Mitra (Scabricola) yokoyamai Nomura, 1935
  • Tiara acuminata Shuto, 1969

Description

The species was first described by William Swainson as Tiara isabella. The shell is slender, fawn coloured, unspotted, and marked by slender crowded, transverse, convex ribs with the interstices deeply cancellated.

Distribution

The type specimen was obtained from "New Holland", i.e. Australia.

References
  1. Cancilla isabella (Swainson, 1831). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.