Joculator pygmaeus
Appearance
Joculator pygmaeus | |
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Shell of Joculator pygmaeus (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Family: | Cerithiopsidae |
Genus: | Joculator |
Species: | J. pygmaeus
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Binomial name | |
Joculator pygmaeus Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
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Joculator pygmaeus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiopsidae.[1]
The species was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.
References
[edit]- Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1–262.
- Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1–187.