''Acamptodaphne eridmata'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
in the
family
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Raphitomidae
Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". '' Malacologia'' 47(1-2). . 3 ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Acamptodaphne eridmata Morassi & Bonfitto, 2010. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=513843 on 2019-02-01]
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its ca ...
.
References
* Morassi, M. & Bonfitto, A. (2010) ''New raphitomine gastropods (Gastropoda: Conidae: Raphitominae) from the South-West Pacific''. Zootaxa, 2526:54-68
eridmata
Gastropods described in 2010
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