''Cancellaria indentata'' 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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Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
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, the nutmeg snails.
Description
Distribution
References
* Jousseaume, F., 1887. Diagnoses de coquilles nouvelles de la famille des Cancellariidae. Le Naturaliste 9(14), sér. série 2
External links
Sowerby, G. B., I. (1832). [Characters and descriptions of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming]. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. 2 (1832): 50-61.Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
Cancellaria
Gastropods described in 1832
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