Chauvetia candidissima

Chauvetia candidissima
Shell of Chauvetia candidissima (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Chauvetiidae
Genus:	Chauvetia
Species:	C. candidissima
Binomial name
Chauvetia candidissima (Philippi, 1836)
Synonyms
Buccinum candidissimumR. A. Philippi, 1836 · superseded combination Donovania candidissima(R. A. Philippi, 1836) superseded combination Nassa rissoidesMarrat, 1877

Chauvetia candidissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks. ^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia, in the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco.

References

1. Chauvetia candidissima (Philippi, 1836) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Marrat, F. (1877). On some proposed new forms in the genus Nassa. Liverpool, privately printed, 15 pp., 1 pl.

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini