''Sorgenfreispira africana'' 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
family
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Mangeliidae.
Description
The adult shell grows to a length of 4 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
Distribution
This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...
and
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
.
References
* Ardovini R. (2004). ''Due nuove specie e una nuova sottospecie di Turridae dal Senegal, West Africa''. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 43: 7-9.
* Mariottini, P., Di Giulio, A., Smriglio, C. & Oliverio, M. (2008) ''Notes on the Bela brachystoma complex, with description of a new species (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Conidae)''. Aldrovandia 4: 3-20.
* Ardovini R. (2008) ''Bela africana sp. n. (Gastropoda, Turridae) West Africa, Senegal''. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 58: 12-13.
External links
Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308. Mariottini P., Di Giulio A., Smriglio C. & Oliverio M. (2015). ''Additional notes on the systematics and new records of East Atlantic species of the genus Sorgenfreispira Moroni, 1979 (Gastropoda Mangeliidae)''. Biodiversity Journal. 6(1): 431-440*
africana
Gastropods described in 2004
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