''Mangelia victoriana'' 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.
[W.H. Dall (1897), Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. Brit. Col., No. 2, p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 9.]
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada.
References
Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921
Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks 2nd ed.; American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26: American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA ; , 0097–0638
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.*
victoriana
Taxa named by William Healey Dall
Gastropods described in 1897
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