Chauvetia retifera

Chauvetia retifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Chauvetiidae
Genus:	Chauvetia
Species:	†C. retifera
Binomial name
†Chauvetia retifera (Brugnone, 1880)
Synonyms [1]
Folinia retifera(Brugnone, 1880) † Lachesis retiferaBrugnone, 1880

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

Recent specimens from the Ibero-Moroccan area referred as C. retifera are to be referred to C. elongataNordsieck & García Talavera, 1979

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Pliocene strata in Sicily, Italy.

References

1. Chauvetia retifera (Brugnone, 1880) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 August 2010.

External links

• Brugnone, G. (1880). "Le conchiglie plioceniche delle vicinanze di Caltanisetta". Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 6: 111.
• Reitano A., Liberto F., Colomba M.S., Sparacio I. & Sanfilippo R. (2019). "Notes on some interesting species of Mollusca Gastropoda of the Monterosato collection from the Museum of Paleontology (Catania University, Italy)". Biodiversity Journal. 10 (4).
• Micali, P. (1999). "Note sulle specie di Chauvetia dell'Atlantico nord-orientale" (PDF). Bollettino Malacologico. 34 (5–8).
• Tringali, L.P. (2001). "Marine malacological records (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Heterobranchia, Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata) from Torres de Alcalá, Mediterranean Morocco, with the description of a new philinid species" (PDF). Bollettino Malacologico. 37 (9–12).
• Bonomolo, G.; Gori, S.; Renda, W. (2024). "Another twisted malacological riddle: Chauvetia elongata Nordsieck & García-Talavera, 1979 (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea, Chauvetiidae)". Iberus. 42 (2).