''Kyllinia marchadi'' is a species of

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, a marine

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in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Gofas, S. (2011). Kyllinia marchadi (Knudsen, 1956). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=592359 on 2017-08-02

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.2 mm.Garilli V. & Galletti L. 2007. Kyllinia parentalis (Neogastropoda: Turridae), new genus and species from the Plio–Pleistocene of the Central Mediterranean area. Journal of Paleontology, 81(4): 746–753
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Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off

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and

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References

* Knudsen, J. 1956. Remarks on a collection of marine Prosobranchs from Senegal Bulletin de l’Institut Franc¸ais d’Afrique Noire. XVIII, s. A, 2:514–529.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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MNHN, Paris: holotype
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyllinia Marchadi marchadi Gastropods described in 1956