''Marita'' is a

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s 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 ...

Description

Originally considered a subgenus of '' Guraleus'', it was separated by Charles Henley in 1922 because of these special characteristics: rounded shoulder, ovate contour, shorter

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, and a smoother

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Distribution

This marine genus is

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to Australia and occurs off

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, Victoria and

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Species

Species within the genus ''Marita'' include according to the

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Marita compta ''Marita compta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Mangeliidae.Bouchet, P. (2014). Marita compta (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Sp ...

'' (Adams & Angas, 1864) * '' Marita elongata'' Laseron, 1954 * '' Marita inornata'' (Sowerby III, 1896) * '' Marita insculpta'' (Adams & Angas, 1864) * '' Marita nitida'' (Hedley, 1922) * '' Marita schoutenensis'' (May, 1901) * '' Marita tumida'' Laseron, 1954 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Marita bella'' (Adams & Angas, 1864): synonym of '' Antiguraleus adcocki'' (G. B. Sowerby III, 1896) * ''Marita peregrina'' A.A. Gould, 1860: synonym of ''

'' (Adams & Angas, 1864) * ''Marita varix'' J.E. Tenison-Woods, 1877: synonym of ''

'' (Adams & Angas, 1864)

References

External links

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295

Gastropods of Australia {{Mangeliidae-stub