Mangelia ceroplasta

Mangelia ceroplasta
Shell of Mangelia ceroplasta (museum specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. ceroplasta
Binomial name
Mangelia ceroplasta (Bush, 1885)
Synonyms [1]
Mangilia ceroplastaBush, 1885

Mangelia ceroplasta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off North Carolina, USA and Martinique.

References

1. Mangelia ceroplasta (Bush, 1885) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 9 August 2011.

• Bush, K. J. 1885. Additions to the shallow-water Mollusca of Cape Hatteras, N.C., dredged by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross,' in 1883 and 1884 Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 453–480, pl. 45.

External links

• * Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.