''Clathromangelia quadrillum'' is an extinct species 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 ...
, a marine
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 ...
mollusk in the
family Raphitomidae
Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". '' Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 3 ...
.
This name has often been misapplied to the Recent ''
Clathromangelia granum'' (Philippi, 1844)
Description
Distribution
This extinct species was distributed in the
Mediterranean Sea, dating from the
Miocene. It was also found in strata from the
Late Pliocene in Malaga (Spain).
Vera-Pelaez, Martinelli, Lozano-Francisco: Turridae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) of the Lower Pliocene from Malaga; Iberus : revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología v.16-17 (1998-1999)
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References
* Cossmann (M.), 1896 ''Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée (2ème livraison)'', p. 1-179
External links
*
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308
quadrillum
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