Cancilla schepmani
Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]
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| Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Genus: | Cancilla |
| Species: | C. schepmani |
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| Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)[1] | |
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The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and Sulu Island, Indonesia
References
- Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut. 2003. Novapex 4 (1): 1-9. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 04/24/10.
- Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.
External links
- Schepman M.M. (1911) The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Rachiglossa. Siboga-Expeditie, 49d: 247-363, pls. 18–24. Leiden, E.J. Brill.
- Salisbury R. & Guillot de Suduiraut E. 2003. Three new deep-water miters (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae) from the Western Indo-Pacific with a new name for Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911. Novapex 4(1): 1-9
- Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337
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