''Scalptia bicolor'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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 ...

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in the family

Cancellariidae Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed. Di ...

, the nutmeg snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Scalptia bicolor (Hinds, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464807 on 2022-05-07

Description

Distribution

This marine species occur soff the Philippines.

References

* Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) ''Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)''- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682
Verhecken A. (2007). ''Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema'', 29(2): 281-364

''Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007.'' Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8
Cancellariidae Gastropods described in 1843 {{cancellariidae-stub