Scissurella mantelli

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Scissurella mantelli
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Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Scissurella mantelli
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Clade: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Scissurellidae
Genus: Scissurella
Species:
S. mantelli
Binomial name
Scissurella mantelli
Woodward, 1859 [1]
Synonyms

Anatoma mantelli(Woodward, 1859)

Scissurella mantelli is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Scissurellidae. [2]

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Description

This species is considered a nomen dubium.

Woodward gave the following original description: Scissurella mantelli resembles Scissurella elegans d'Orbigny, 1824, but it is rather larger, more depressed, more strongly ornamented, and has a longer scissural band. The specimen has been in my hands several years, but I did not think it worth publishing until I observed that it exhibited a character hitherto omitted in all descriptions of the genus, viz., that the shell when young has no slit. M. d'Orbigny's figures of Scissurella elegans, elaborate and highly magnified, represent the scissural band winding round all the whorls and extending to the extreme apex. But on referring to the specimens collected by Mr. Jeffreys at Spezzia, I found that the band really terminated within half a whorl of the aperture, a smaller proportional distance than in S. mantelli, and that during the first part of its life the S. elegans also had a simple, entire lip, like the ordinary Trochidae. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off North Island, New Zealand.

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References

  1. ↑ Woodward, Proc. Zool. of London, 1859 p. 202, pl. 46
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Scissurella mantelli Woodward, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493021 on 2013-03-20
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII, p. 53
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