Merica oblonga
Species of gastropod
| Merica oblonga | |
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| Shell of Merica oblonga | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Merica |
| Species: | M. oblonga |
| Binomial name | |
| Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Merica oblonga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Description
Distribution
References
- ^ a b Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- Verhecken A. (1997). Mollusca Gastropoda: Arafura Sea Cancellariidae collected during the Karubar cruise. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 172: 295–323
- Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
External links
- Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1–8
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