Serrata dentata

Serrata dentata
Shell of Serrata dentata (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Marginellidae
Genus:	Serrata
Species:	S. dentata
Binomial name
Serrata dentata Boyer, 2008 [1]

Serrata dentata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. ^[2]

Description

The shell is slender, solid, and semi-translucent. There are five narrow plaits, 2 anterior ones that are nearly straight, second one being very long. The 3 upper ones are less oblique, decreasing in size posteriorly. On it, the fifth plait is not fully formed. Its ground color is whitish, with 2 pale narrow orange bands on dorsum, both more marked on outer margin than elsewhere and decreasing in intensity over last whorl. Its dimensions are 6.90 x 3.15 mm. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia (d range 444-445 m)

References

1. Boyer (2008). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196 : 389–436. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
2. Serrata dentata Boyer, 2008 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
3. "Serrata dentata Boyer 2008, n. sp. - Plazi TreatmentBank". tb.plazi.org. Retrieved 28 February 2025.

• Boyer, F. (2008). The genus Serrata Jousseaume, 1875 (Caenogastropoda: Marginellidae) in New Caledonia. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 389-436.