''Mangelia payraudeauti'' 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.
Not to be confused with ''Pleurotoma payraudeauti''
Weinkauff, H.C., 1868
This species is considered by Tucker as a synonym of ''
Mangelia attenuata
''Mangelia attenuata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 5 mm and 13 mm.
The shell has nine whorls. Each whorl contains nine ribs, narrow, flexu ...
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(Montagu, G., 1803) Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters off Portugal and Spain.
References
External links
Deshayes, G. P., 1835. Mollusques. Pp. 81–203, pl. 18–26, in Bory de Saint-Vincent J.B.G.M. (ed.), Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. 1ere Partie. Zoologie. Première Section. Animaux vertébrés, Mollusques et Polypiers. Levrault, Paris
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payraudeauti
Gastropods described in 1835
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