Cancilla schepmani

Cancilla schepmani
Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Cancilla
Species:
C. schepmani
Binomial name
Cancilla schepmani
(Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym)
  • Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name)
  • Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
  • Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911)
  • Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)

Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and Sulu Island, Indonesia

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