''Mangelia adansoni'' is a species of

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in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Mangelia adansoni (Knudsen, 1952). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556041 on 2017-08-09

Taxonomy

Originally placed in ''Cythara'' Schumacher, 1817, an unaccepted generic name; tentatively here placed in ''Mangelia''

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

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References

* Knudsen, J. (1952) Marine prosobranchs of tropical West Africa collected by the Atlantide Expedition, 1945–46. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn, 114, 129–185, 3 pls.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
adansoni Gastropods described in 1952 {{Mangeliidae-stub