Cancilla schepmani

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Cancilla schepmani
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Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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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) schepmaniR. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym)
  • Mitra millepunctataSchepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctataG.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name)
  • Mitra schepmaniSalisbury & 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]

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

Distribution

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

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