Gradaterebra lightfooti

Gradaterebra lightfooti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[2]

Gradaterebra lightfooti
Shell of Gradaterebra lightfooti lectotype in the Natural History Museum, London[1]
Illustration accompanying Edgar Albert Smith's original 1899 description
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Gradaterebra
Species:
G. lightfooti
Binomial name
Gradaterebra lightfooti
(E.A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms[2]
  • Euterebra lightfooti (E. A. Smith, 1899)
  • Terebra lightfooti E. A. Smith, 1899 (original combination[3])

Distribution

It is found in Table Bay, Cape Point, Brown's Bank, False Bay,[4] and Saldanha Bay,[5] South Africa. The type locality is Table Bay.[3]

References
  1. Salvador, Andreia; Pickering, Joan (2017). "Type catalogue of Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.". Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gradaterebra lightfooti (E. A. Smith, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1416775 on 2020-01-27
  3. Smith, Edgar A. (1899). "Descriptions of New Species of South African Marine Shells". Journal of Conchology. 9 (8): 247; Pl. 5, Fig. 1.
  4. Barnard, K. H. (1958). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African Marine Mollusca. Part I. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa". Annals of the South African Museum. 44: 79.
  5. Barnard, K. H. (1969). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement". Annals of the South African Museum. 47 (4): 596.


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