Stellaria gigantea

Stellaria gigantea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Xenophoroidea
Family:	Xenophoridae
Genus:	Stellaria
Species:	S. gigantea
Binomial name
	Stellaria gigantea; (Schepman, 1909)
Synonyms
	Trochotugurium giganteum (Schepman, 1909); Tugurium giganteum (Schepman, 1909); Xenophora gigantea (Schepman, 1909);

Stellaria gigantea is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.^[1]

Description

^ ^a ^b Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909). WoRMS (2010). Stellaria gigantea (Schepman, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468048 on 9 July 2010 .

Kilburn R.N. (1973). Notes on some benthic Mollusca from Natal and Moçabique, with descriptions of new species and subspecies of Calliostoma, Solariella, Latiaxis, Babylonia, Fusinus, Bathytoma and Conus. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(3):557-578.
Kreipl K. & Alf A. (1999). Recent Xenophoridae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim > Germany. 148pp.

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