Nipponaphera wallacei
Nipponaphera wallacei | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Nipponaphera |
Species: | N. wallacei |
Binomial name | |
Nipponaphera wallacei Petit & Harasewych, 2000[1] | |
Nipponaphera wallacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]
The specific name wallacei is in honor of Mr. Martin Wallace, who collected type specimens.[1]
Distribution
References
- 1 2 3 Petit R. E. & Harasewych M. G. (2000). "Additions to the Cancellariid (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) Fauna of South Africa". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(1): 145-154. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8310
- ↑ Nipponaphera wallacei Petit & Harasewych, 2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
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