''Leptoconchus peronii'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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, in the
family
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Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
[MolluscaBase (2018). ''Leptoconchus peronii'' (Lamarck, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716500 on 2019-01-06][Scott, P. J. B. (1980). Associations between scleractinians and coral-boring molluscs in Hong Kong. In:Proceedings of the first International workshop on the malacofaunal of Hong Kong and Southern China (ed. Morton, B.), pp121-138. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.]
References
* Massin C. (1982). Contribution to the knowledge of two boring gastropods with an annotated list of the genera Magilus Montfort, 1810 and Leptoconchus Rüppell, 1835. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 53: 1-28.
External links
Lamarck [J.-B. M.de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 5. Paris: Deterville/Verdière, 612 pp.">.-B. M."> Lamarck [J.-B. M.
de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 5. Paris: Deterville/Verdière, 612 pp.
Rüppell E. (1835 ["1834". Description of a new genus of pectinibranchiated gasteropodous Mollusca (Leptoconchus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 105-106.]
Lischke C.E. (1871). Diagnosen neuer Meeres-Conchylien von Japan. Malakozoologische Blätter. 18: 39-45.Massin C. (1990) Biologie et écologie de Leptoconchus peronii (Lamarck, 1818) (Gastropoda, Coralliophilidae) récolté en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, avec une redescription de l'espèce. Bull. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 60: 23-33
peronii
Gastropods described in 1818
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