''Mangelia elegantissima'' 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 Mangeliidae.
[E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).]
Not to be confounded with ''Mangelia elegantissima''
(Melvill & Standen, 1903), originally described as ''Cythara elegantissima'' and now a synonym of ''Paraclathurella gracilenta''
(Reeve, 1843)
Description
Distribution
This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
References
External links
Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: ''Mangelia elegantissima''
elegantissima
Gastropods described in 1921
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