Mangelia perforata

Mangelia perforata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. perforata
Binomial name
	Mangelia perforata; (Brusina, 1877)
Synonyms
	Cythara (Mangelia) detmersiana (Böttger, 1901); Mangelia perforata Brusina, 1931; Mangilia detmersiana Böttger, 1901; Mangilia monterosati Bellardi, 1877; Mangilia perforata (Brusina, 1877); Pleurotoma caerulans Philippi, 1856 (original description); Raphitoma (Mangilia) perforata Brusina, 1877;

Mangelia perforata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.8 mm, its diameter 2.8 mm.

This extinct marine species was found in the Middle Miocene strata in Poland and from Kostej in Transylvania.

^ Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.

Bellardi 1877. I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte I, pp. 1–245, parte II, pp. 1–364. Torino.
Böttger, O. 1896, 1901, 1906, 1907. Zur Kentnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó-Szörenyer Komitat. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbürgischen Vereins für aturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt, 46, 49-66; 51, 1-199; 54, 1-99; 55, 101-217.
Brusina, S. 1877. Fragmenta Vindobonesia. Journal de Conchyliologie, ser. 3, 17, 368-391.
Bałuk, Wacław. "Middle Miocene (Badenian) Gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV–Turridae." Acta Geologica Polonica 53.1 (2003): 29-78.

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