Cyllene desnoyersi

Cyllene desnoyersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Subfamily: Cylleninae
Genus: Cyllene
Species: C. desnoyersi
Binomial name
Cyllene desnoyersi
(Basterot, 1825) †

Cyllene desnoyersi is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

There is one subspecies Cyllene desnoyersi lamarcki Cernohorsky, 1975 (synonyms : Cyllene lamarcki Cernohorsky, 1975; Cyllene lyrata (Lamarck, 1822)

Description

The shell grows to a length of 11 mm

Distribution

The species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Gabon and Angola

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