''Marita insculpta'' is a species 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

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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 ...

.Bouchet, P. (2017). Marita insculpta (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434388 on 2017-10-04

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm. The shell is closely longitudinally plicate. The ribs form a slight posterior shoulder or angle, interstices with revolving lirae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, darker in the grooves.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
(described as ''Mangilia insculpta'')

Distribution

This marine species is

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to Australia and occurs off

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and

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References

* Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. ''Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas.'' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418-428, pl. xxxvii * Verco, J.C. 1909. ''Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part XII''. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 293-342

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

Hedley C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae''. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10326540 insculpta Gastropods described in 1864 Gastropods of Australia