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Marginella aequinoctialis
Shell of Marginella aequinoctialis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae
Genus: Marginella
Species:
M. aequinoctialis
Binomial name
Marginella aequinoctialis
Boyer & Simbille, 2004 [1]

Marginella aequinoctialis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. [2]

This species has not, so far (2017) been formally reassigned to Glabella Swainson, 1840 but belongs there as being a sibling species of Glabella bellii (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846) [2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon at a depth of 25 m.

References

  • Boyer F. & Simbille C., 2004. A propos d'une espèce jumelle de Marginella bellii Sowerby, 1846. Bollettino Malacologico, 40 (5-8): 80-87


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marginella aequinoctialis
Shell of Marginella aequinoctialis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae
Genus: Marginella
Species:
M. aequinoctialis
Binomial name
Marginella aequinoctialis
Boyer & Simbille, 2004 [1]

Marginella aequinoctialis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails. [2]

This species has not, so far (2017) been formally reassigned to Glabella Swainson, 1840 but belongs there as being a sibling species of Glabella bellii (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846) [2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.9 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Gabon at a depth of 25 m.

References

  • Boyer F. & Simbille C., 2004. A propos d'une espèce jumelle de Marginella bellii Sowerby, 1846. Bollettino Malacologico, 40 (5-8): 80-87



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