''Mangelia paessleri'' 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 Mangeliidae.
[Rosenberg, G. (2010). Mangelia paessleri (Strebel, 1905). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533020 on 2017-09-14]
Description
The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Tierra del Fuego.
It is also found as a fossil in
Quaternary
The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...
strata in
Chile; age range: 2.588 to 0.781 Ma
Fossilworks : Bela paesleri
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References
Strebel, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz; Jena,Gustav Fischer,1904–1907
* Forcelli, D.O. (2000) ''Moluscos Magallanicos Guia de Moluscos de Patagonia y Sur de Chile''. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, Santiago. 200 pp.
* S. N. Nielson and C. Valdovinos. 2008. Early Pleistocene mollusks of the Tubul Formation, south-central Chile. The Nautilus 122(4):201–216
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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paessleri
Gastropods described in 1905
Endemic fauna of Chile
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