Gradaterebra lightfooti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[3]
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| Shell of Gradaterebra lightfooti lectotype in the Natural History Museum, London[1] | |
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| Illustration accompanying Edgar Albert Smith's original 1899 description | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Gradaterebra |
| Species: | G. lightfooti
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| Binomial name | |
| Gradaterebra lightfooti (E.A. Smith, 1899)
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Distribution
editIt is found in Table Bay, Cape Point, Brown's Bank, False Bay,[4] and Saldanha Bay,[5] South Africa. The type locality is Table Bay.[2]
References
edit- ^ Salvador, Andreia; Pickering, Joan (2017). "Type catalogue of Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.". Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1. PMID 28610023.
- ^ a b Smith, Edgar A. (1899). "Descriptions of New Species of South African Marine Shells". Journal of Conchology. 9 (8): 247; Pl. 5, Fig. 1.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gradaterebra lightfooti (E. A. Smith, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1416775 on 2020-01-27
- ^ Barnard, K. H. (1958). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African Marine Mollusca. Part I. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa". Annals of the South African Museum. 44: 79.
- ^ Barnard, K. H. (1969). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement". Annals of the South African Museum. 47 (4): 596.
External links
edit- Fedosov, Alexander E; Malcolm, Gavin; Terryn, Yves; Gorson, Juliette; Modica, Maria Vittoria; Holford, Mandë; Puillandre, Nicolas (2019). "Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 85 (4): 359–388. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyz004. hdl:11573/1681277.
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