''Perimangelia nitens'' 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 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 ...

.Traits (2009). Perimangelia nitens (Carpenter, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=435279 on 2017-12-12

Description

The shell is similar to ''

Clathromangelia variegata ''Clathromangelia variegata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The shell is very thin, with nine ribs and almost microscopic revolving lines. The color of the shell is yellowish or ...

'' (Carpenter, 1864), but it has a chestnut and a white band.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 interlirata'')

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Northwest USA, from Monterey, California, to

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, Lower California

References

Carpenter P. (1872) ''The Mollusks of Western North America'', Smithsonian Institution, Washington
* McLean J. H. (2000). ''Four new genera for northeastern Pacific gastropods''. The Nautilus. 114: 99-102

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10348670 nitens Gastropods described in 1864