Aspa marginata Temporal range:
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Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bursidae |
Genus: | Aspa |
Species: | A. marginata
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Aspa marginata (
Gmelin, 1791)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Aspa marginata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells. [1] [2]
Shells of Aspa marginata can reach a size of 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.57 in). [3] These shells are quite thick, beige in color, with a smooth surface, a deep siphonal canal and a short spire.
This marine species occurs in Western Africa, Senegal and Canary Islands. [3] [2]
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Miocene of Italy and France to the Quaternary of Namibia and Spain (age range: from 15.97 to 0.781 million years ago). [4]
The fossilized shells have been valued by humans and Neanderthals. [5]
Aspa marginata Temporal range:
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Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bursidae |
Genus: | Aspa |
Species: | A. marginata
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Binomial name | |
Aspa marginata (
Gmelin, 1791)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Aspa marginata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells. [1] [2]
Shells of Aspa marginata can reach a size of 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.57 in). [3] These shells are quite thick, beige in color, with a smooth surface, a deep siphonal canal and a short spire.
This marine species occurs in Western Africa, Senegal and Canary Islands. [3] [2]
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Miocene of Italy and France to the Quaternary of Namibia and Spain (age range: from 15.97 to 0.781 million years ago). [4]
The fossilized shells have been valued by humans and Neanderthals. [5]