Cancilla planofilum

Cancilla planofilum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Cancilla
Species:	C. planofilum
Binomial name
	Cancilla planofilum; Huang, 2011[1]

Cancilla planofilum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[1]

Description

Shell up to 32 mm in length, acuminate and slender. Color white, semitransparent at apex and porcelaneous near body. Spire sides are straight while whorl sides are slightly convex, and sutures are simple and prominent. Protoconch has 2.5 to 3 glassy and conoidal whorls. Teleoconch has 8 to 8.5 whorls.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific, South China Sea, north to Taiwan and to the Pratas Islands, 200 to 600 m deep. The holotype has been caught by a fishing boat off north Taiwan. Two paratypes come from fishing boats working around the Pratas Islands.

References

1 2 Huang, S.-I. (2011). "Calcimitra, a new genus of deep-water Mitridae (Gastropoda: Mitridae) with the description of five new species from Taiwan and the Philippines". Visaya. 3 (4): 88–97.

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[Huang-1] 1 2 Huang, S.-I. (2011). "Calcimitra, a new genus of deep-water Mitridae (Gastropoda: Mitridae) with the description of five new species from Taiwan and the Philippines". Visaya. 3 (4): 88–97.