Chlanidota signeyana

Chlanidota signeyana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1] It was described by Harold Powell in 1951.

Chlanidota signeyana
Shell of Chlanidota signeyana (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Buccinidae
Genus:
Chlanidota
Species:
C. signeyana
Binomial name
Chlanidota signeyana
Powell, 1951
Synonyms
  • Chlanidota elongata (Lamy, 1910)
  • Chlanidota lamyi Dell, 1990
  • Chlanidota pyriformis Dell, 1990
  • Cominella vestita var. elongata Lamy, 1910 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Cominella elongata (Dunker, 1857); Chlanidota lamyi is a replacement name)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Timor.

References
  1. Chlanidota signeyana Powell, 1951. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  • Lamy, Ed., 1910. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908-1910). Collections recueillies par M. le Dr J. Liouville. Gastropodes prosobranches et scaphopodes. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 16: 318-324
  • Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311
  • Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp


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