''Cancillopsis'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s,
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks, in the
family Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitridae Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: ...
, the miters or miter snails.
[MolluscaBase (2018). ''Cancillopsis'' Fedosov, Herrmann, Kantor & Bouchet, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060571 on 2019-01-04]
Species
Species within the genus ''Cancillopsis'' include:
* † ''
Cancillopsis acuminata''
(Shuto, 1969)
* ''
Cancillopsis chuoi
''Cancillopsis chuoi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea ...
''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Cancillopsis liliformis''
(S.-I Huang & R. Salisbury, 2017)
* ''
Cancillopsis meimiaoae''
(Huang & Salisbury, 2017)
References
External links
Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337
Gastropods described in 2018
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