Marginella melvilli | |
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Two views of a shell of Marginella melvilli | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Marginellidae |
Genus: | Marginella |
Species: | M. melvilli |
Binomial name | |
Marginella melvilli Tomlin & Shackleford, 1913 | |
Marginella melvilli is a species of colorful small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae.
This species is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe. [1]
Marginella is a very large genus of small tropical and temperate sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Marginellinae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. It is the type genus of the family.
A species that is extinct in the wild (EW) is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as known only by living members kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range due to massive habitat loss.
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