Conasprella kitteredgei

Conasprella kitteredgei

Three views of a shell of Conasprella kitteredgei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	Conasprella
Species:	C. kitteredgei
Binomial name
*Conasprella kitteredgei* (Maury, 1917)
Synonyms^[1]
† Conasprella (Ximenoconus) kitteredgei (Maury,1917) accepted, alternate representation † Conus kitteredgei Maury, 1917 (original combination) † Perplexiconus kitteredgei (Maury), Tucker and Tenorio, 2009

Conasprella kitteredgei is a species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.^[1]

Distribution

This fossil species is known from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

References

1 2 Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella kitteredgei (Maury, 1917) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843122 on 2015-06-16

Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924

External links

External identifiers for Conasprella kitteredgei
WoRMS	843122

World Register of Marine Species

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, June 16, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.