Melanella attenuata

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Melanella attenuata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Melanella
Species:
M. attenuata
Binomial name
Melanella attenuata
G.B. Sowerby II, 1866
Synonyms
  • Eulima attenuata G.B. Sowerby II, 1866
  • Eulima rossinsulae Preston, 1916
  • Melanella montebelloensis(Iredale, 1914)
  • Melanella rossinsulae Preston, 1916
  • Subularia montebelloensis Iredale, 1914

Melanella attenuata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus, Melanella . [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Distribution

This species occurs off the following locations: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 G.B. Sowerby II, 1866. Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 56. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=537089 on 2013-03-26.
  2. ↑ Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com.
  3. ↑ Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS)
  4. ↑ Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.


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