Africotriton carinapex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Africotriton carinapex | |
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Shell of Africotriton carinapex (holotype at the Australian Museum) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Africotriton |
Species: | A. carinapex
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Binomial name | |
Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 11.7 mm.
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Distribution
editIt is found off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.[2]
References
edit- ^ Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ "Africotriton carinapex Beu & P.A.Maxwell, 1987". gbif.org. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- Beu, A. G.; Maxwell, P. A. (1987). A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 54: 1-140.
- Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
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