''Kyllinia marchadi'' is a species of

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, 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 Mangeliidae.Gofas, S. (2011). Kyllinia marchadi (Knudsen, 1956). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=592359 on 2017-08-02

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.2 mm.Garilli V. & Galletti L. 2007. Kyllinia parentalis (Neogastropoda: Turridae), new genus and species from the Plio–Pleistocene of the Central Mediterranean area. Journal of Paleontology, 81(4): 746–753
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Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal,

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and Angola.

References

* Knudsen, J. 1956. Remarks on a collection of marine Prosobranchs from Senegal Bulletin de l’Institut Franc¸ais d’Afrique Noire. XVIII, s. A, 2:514–529.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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MNHN, Paris: holotype
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyllinia Marchadi marchadi Gastropods described in 1956