Knefastia hilli
Appearance
Knefastia hilli | |
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Shell of Knefastia hilli | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Knefastia |
Species: | K. hilli
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Binomial name | |
Knefastia hilli Petuch, 1990
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Knefastia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 35 mm and 58 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]Knefastia hilli can be found on the Caribbean coasts of Panama.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Knefastia hilli Petuch, 1990. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 March 2010.
- B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Knefastia hilli.
- E. Petuch, A new Molluscan Faunule from the Caribbean Coast of Panama; The Nautilus v. 104 (1990); Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, American Malacologists, Inc. Delaware Museum of Natural History.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Gastropods.com: Knefastia hilli