| Africotriton fictilis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Africotriton |
| Species: | A. fictilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Africotriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844a) | |
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Africotriton fictilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [1]
The length of the shell attains 21 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The solid, ovate shell has a gray color. The whorls are rounded with longitudinal, obliquely folded ribs and narrow transverse striae. The spirals barely extend beyond the aperture, which is polished, deep, and smoothed with a contracted callous opening.
This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
Admete sadko is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Admete tabulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton adelphum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton carinapex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton crebriliratus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton kilburni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton multinodulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Africotriton petiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Massyla corrugata, common name the corrugated nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Narona clavatula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Scalptia nassa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Trigonostoma scala is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Sydaphera spengleriana, the Spengler's nutmeg, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Tritonoharpa boucheti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Hastula albula, the white-banded auger, is a species of sea snail in the family Terebridae.
Terebra funiculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
Africotriton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Plesiotritoninae of the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Tritonoharpa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Massyla is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.