''Neoguraleus trizonata'' 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

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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 ...

.Sartori, André F. (2014). Neoguraleus trizonata (E. A. Smith, 1882). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=816426 on 2017-10-21 This is a

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Description

The length of the shell attains 8.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the

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and

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

References

External links

* Héros, V.; Lozouet, P.; Maestrati, P.; Cosel, R. V.; Brabant, D. & Bouchet, P. (2007). Mollusca of New Caledonia, in: Payri C.E., Richer de Forges B. (Eds.) Compendium of marine species of New Caledonia. Doc. Sci. Tech. II7. Seconde édition, IRD Nouméa, pp 199–254. *
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
trizonata Gastropods described in 1882 {{Mangeliidae-stub