Cancilla schepmani

Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[2]

Cancilla schepmani
Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Cancilla
Species:
C. schepmani
Binomial name
Cancilla schepmani
(Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)[1]
Synonyms
  • Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym)
  • Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name)
  • Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
  • Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911)
  • Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)

The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and Sulu Island, Indonesia

References
  1. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut. 2003. Novapex 4 (1): 1-9. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 04/24/10.
  2. Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 December 2018.


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