Scalptia scalariformis

Scalptia scalariformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Scalptia
Species:	S. scalariformis
Binomial name
*Scalptia scalariformis* (Lamarck, 1822b)
Synonyms^[1]
Cancellaria constifera G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 (incorrect subsequent spelling) Cancellaria costifera G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 Cancellaria mangelioides Reeve, 1856 Cancellaria scalariformis Lamarck, 1822 (original combination) Trigonostoma costiferum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)

Scalptia scalariformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and Madagascar.

References

1 2 Scalptia scalariformis (Lamarck, 1822b). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.

Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8.

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