Africotriton petiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Africotriton |
| Species: | A. petiti
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| Binomial name | |
| Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
References
edit- ^ Africotriton petiti Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- 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.
- Verhecken A. (2020). New and poorly known species of Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Gloria Maris. 59(2): 40-89.
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