Subcancilla scrobiculata

Subcancilla scrobiculata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1]

Subspecies
Cancilla scrobiculata crosnieri Cernohorsky, 1970 (temporary name) (distribution: in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth of the Congo river) (synonym: Cancilla scrobiculata crosnieri Cernohorsky, 1970)

Subcancilla scrobiculata
Shell of Subcancilla scrobiculata crosnieri (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Subcancilla
Species:
S. scrobiculata
Binomial name
Subcancilla scrobiculata
(Brocchi, 1814)
Synonyms
  • Cancilla scrobiculata (Brocchi, 1814)
  • Voluta scrobiculata Brocchi, 1814

References

  • Cernohorsky W.O., (1970). New Mitridae and Volutomitridae. The Nautilus 83(3): 95-104
  • Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp.


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