Sorgenfreispira africana

Sorgenfreispira africana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Sorgenfreispira africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Sorgenfreispira
Species:
S. africana
Binomial name
Sorgenfreispira africana
Ardovini, 2004
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela africana Ardovini, 2008 (Described a second time by the same author on the erroneous assumption that his first publication at the rank of subspecies was invalid)
  • Bela brachystoma africana Ardovini, 2004 (basionym)

Description

The adult shell grows to a length of 4 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.

Distribution

This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal and Angola.

References
  1. Bela africana Ardovini, 2004. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
  • Ardovini R. (2004). Due nuove specie e una nuova sottospecie di Turridae dal Senegal, West Africa. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 43: 7-9.
  • Mariottini, P., Di Giulio, A., Smriglio, C. & Oliverio, M. (2008) Notes on the Bela brachystoma complex, with description of a new species (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Conidae). Aldrovandia 4: 3-20.
  • Ardovini R. (2008) Bela africana sp. n. (Gastropoda, Turridae) West Africa, Senegal. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 58: 12-13.
  • Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  • Mariottini P., Di Giulio A., Smriglio C. & Oliverio M. (2015). Additional notes on the systematics and new records of East Atlantic species of the genus Sorgenfreispira Moroni, 1979 (Gastropoda Mangeliidae). Biodiversity Journal. 6(1): 431-440
  • "Sorgenfreispira africana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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