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''Merica oblonga'' is a
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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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Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.


Description


Distribution


References

* Verhecken A. (1997). ''Mollusca Gastropoda: Arafura Sea Cancellariidae collected during the Karubar cruise''. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 172: 295–323 * Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) ''Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)-'' 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682 * Petit R.E. (2009) ''George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa''. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.


External links


Hemmen J. (2007) ''Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007''. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1–8
Cancellariidae Gastropods described in 1825 {{cancellariidae-stub