Trigonostoma costiferum
| Trigonostoma costiferum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Trigonostoma |
| Species: | T. costifera |
| Binomial name | |
| Trigonostoma costiferum (Sowerby, 1832) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Trigonostoma costiferum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania.
References
- 1 2 Trigonostoma costiferum (Sowerby, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 July 2012.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp.
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
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