Angaria delphinus
| Angaria delphinus | |
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| Five views of a shell of Angaria delphinus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Angarioidea |
| Family: | Angariidae |
| Genus: | Angaria |
| Species: | A. delphinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Angaria delphinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
 Apical view of another color form of Angaria delphinus showing variability of the species. | |
Angaria delphinus, common name the common delphinula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Angariidae. [1]
Description
The shell of this species is variable in degree of sculpture, depending on how exposed or sheltered the environment is in which the snail lives. These different forms are called ecomorphs.
Distribution
This species is distributed along Madagascar and New Zealand.
References
- 1 2 WoRMS : Angaria delphinus; accessed : 22 August 2011
- Poppe G.T. & Goto Y. (1993) Recent Angariidae. Ancona: Informatore Piceno. 32 pls, 10 pls
- Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III.
- Monsecour K. & Monsecour D. (2006) The genus Angaria Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) in New Caledonia, with description of a new species. Visaya 1(6): 9-16.
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