''Marita insculpta'' 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

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

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 ...

.Bouchet, P. (2017). Marita insculpta (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434388 on 2017-10-04

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm. The shell is closely longitudinally plicate. The ribs form a slight posterior shoulder or angle, interstices with revolving lirae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, darker in the grooves.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
(described as ''Mangilia insculpta'')

Distribution

This marine species is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Australia and occurs off

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and Victoria.

References

* Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. ''Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas.'' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii * Verco, J.C. 1909. ''Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII''. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293-342

External links

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

Hedley C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae''. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10326540 insculpta Gastropods described in 1864 Gastropods of Australia