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Africotriton carinapex

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Africotriton carinapex
Shell of Africotriton carinapex (holotype at the Australian Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Africotriton
Species:
A. carinapex
Binomial name
Africotriton carinapex
Beu & Maxwell, 1987

Africotriton carinapex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 11.7 mm.

Distribution

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It is found off the coast of New South Wales, Australia.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Africotriton carinapex Beu & Maxwell, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Africotriton carinapex Beu & P.A.Maxwell, 1987". gbif.org. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  • Beu, A. G.; Maxwell, P. A. (1987). A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 54: 1-140.
  • Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
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