Conasprella kitteredgei

This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2021.

Conasprella kitteredgei is a species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]

Conasprella kitteredgei
Three views of a shell of Conasprella kitteredgei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conasprella
Species:
C. kitteredgei
Binomial name
Conasprella kitteredgei
(Maury, 1917)
Synonyms[1]
  • Conasprella (Ximenoconus) kitteredgei (Maury,1917) accepted, alternate representation
  • Conus kitteredgei Maury, 1917 (original combination)
  • Perplexiconus kitteredgei (Maury), Tucker and Tenorio, 2009

Distribution

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This fossil species is known from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

References

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  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella kitteredgei (Maury, 1917) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843122 on 2015-06-16
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