Chauvetia retifera
| Chauvetia retifera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Chauvetiidae |
| Genus: | Chauvetia |
| Species: | †C. retifera
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chauvetia retifera (Brugnone, 1880)
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Chauvetia retifera is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks.[1]
Recent specimens from the Ibero-Moroccan area referred as C. retifera are to be referred to C. elongata Nordsieck & García Talavera, 1979
Distribution
Fossils of this species were found in Pliocene strata in Sicily, Italy.
References
- ^ a b Chauvetia retifera (Brugnone, 1880). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 August 2010.
External links
- Brugnone, G. (1880). "Le conchiglie plioceniche delle vicinanze di Caltanisetta". Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 6: 111.
- Reitano A., Liberto F., Colomba M.S., Sparacio I. & Sanfilippo R. (2019). "Notes on some interesting species of Mollusca Gastropoda of the Monterosato collection from the Museum of Paleontology (Catania University, Italy)". Biodiversity Journal. 10 (4).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Micali, P. (1999). "Note sulle specie di Chauvetia dell'Atlantico nord-orientale" (PDF). Bollettino Malacologico. 34 (5–8).
- Tringali, L.P. (2001). "Marine malacological records (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Heterobranchia, Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata) from Torres de Alcalá, Mediterranean Morocco, with the description of a new philinid species" (PDF). Bollettino Malacologico. 37 (9–12).
- Bonomolo, G.; Gori, S.; Renda, W. (2024). "Another twisted malacological riddle: Chauvetia elongata Nordsieck & García-Talavera, 1979 (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea, Chauvetiidae)". Iberus. 42 (2).
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