''Lusitanops dictyota'' is a
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). . 39 ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). Lusitanops dictyota Sysoev, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435824 on 2015-02-22]
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Arafura Sea off Papua New Guinea and off the Tanimbar Island, Indonesia.
References
* Mollusca Gastropoda: ''new deep-water turrid gastropods (Conoidea) from eastern Indonesia.'' Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 172 1997: 325–355.
External links
MNHN, Paris: holotype*
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
dictyota
Gastropods described in 1997
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