Mangelia neapolitana

Mangelia neapolitana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. neapolitana
Binomial name
Mangelia neapolitana S. Delle Chiaje, 1841

Mangelia neapolitana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae, the cone snails and their allies. ^[1]

It is considered a synonym of Mangelia costulata Risso, 1826, ^[2] but recognized as an accepted species by Tucker. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily.

References

1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangelia neapolitana
2. Notiziario S.I.M. anno 30 n. 2 (2012)
3. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

• Delle Chiaje S., 1841–1844. Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822–1830. 8 v. Stabilimento Tipografico di C. Batelli & Co., Napoli. [vol. 1, pp. 1–98, 1841 – vol. 2, pp. 146, 1841 – vol. 3, pp. 1–142, 1841 -vol. 4, pp. 1–142, 1841 – vol. 5, pp. 1–165, 1841 -vol. 6, tavv. 1–86, 1841 – vol. 7, tavv. 87–173, 1841, tavv. 174–181, 1844 – vol. 8, pp. 1–48, 1844].

External links

• "Mangelia neapolitana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.