Epitonium jukesianum

Epitonium bucknilli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
informal group Ptenoglossa

Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Genus: Epitonium
Species: E. jukesianum
Binomial name
Epitonium jukesianum
(Fosbes, 1852)
Synonyms[1]
  • Acutiscala ampacta Iredale, 1936
  • Acutiscala fabia Iredale, 1936
  • Clathrus fabia (Iredale, 1936)
  • Clathrus wellingtonensis Kirk, 1880
  • Epitonium ampactum (Iredale, 1936)
  • Epitonium delicatulum Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864
  • Epitonium fabia (Iredale, 1936)
  • Epitonium wellingtonensis (Kirk, 1880)
  • Scalaria delicatula Crosse & P. Fischer, 1864
  • Scalaria jukesiana Forbes, 1852

Epitonium jukesianum is a species of very small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps. [1]

This snail is known to occur in shallow water in southeastern Australia and North Island, New Zealand. It is also found along the coasts of Tasmania.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2010). Epitonium jukesianum. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=523894 on 2010-11-22
  2. ↑ molluscsoftasmania.net


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