Veprecula echinulata

Veprecula echinulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Veprecula echinulata
Shell of Veprecula echinulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Veprecula
Species:
V. echinulata
Binomial name
Veprecula echinulata
(Thiele, 1925)
Synonyms[1]

Clathurella echinulata Thiele, 1925

This is not Veprecula echinulata Springsteen & Leobrera, 1986 (this is probably Veprecula vepratica)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 12 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Zanzibar Channel (Tanzania) and Easter Island.

References

  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Raines, Bret K. "New molluscan records from Easter Island, with the description of a new Ethminolia." Visaya 2.1 (2007): 70-88.


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