''Famelica polyacantha'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a marine
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the
family
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Raphitomidae
Raphitomidae is a Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families" ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Veprecula Melvill, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432584 on 2023-02-04]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 12 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
References
* Stahlschmidt P., Chino M. & Kilburn R.N. (2012) Two new Veprecula species (Gastropoda: Raphitomidae) from the Philippines. Miscellanea Malacologica 5(6): 99–103.
* Chino, M. & Stahlschmidt, P. (2021). Description of a new Famelica species (Gastropoda: Raphitomidae) from the Philippines. Gloria Maris. 60(4): 184–187.
External links
Criscione, F., Hallan, A., Puillandre, N. & Fedosov, A. (2021). Snails in depth: integrative taxonomy of Famelica, Glaciotomella and Rimosodaphnella (Conoidea: Raphitomidae) from the deep sea of temperate Australia. Invertebrate Systematics. 35: 940-962Gastropods.com: ''Veprecula polyacantha''
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polyacantha
Gastropods described in 2012