Euterebra lightfooti

Euterebra lightfooti
Lectotype in the Natural History Museum, London[1]
Illustration accompanying Edgar Albert Smith's original 1899 description
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Family:Terebridae
Genus:Euterebra
Species: E. lightfooti
Binomial name
Euterebra lightfooti
(E.A. Smith, 1899)
Synonyms[2]
  • Terebra (Abretia) lightfooti E.A. Smith, 1899[3]

Euterebra lightfooti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[2]

Distribution

It is found in Table Bay, Cape Point, Brown's Bank, False Bay,[4] and Saldanha Bay,[5] South Africa. The type locality is Table Bay.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Salvador, Andreia; Pickering, Joan (2017). "Type catalogue of Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.". Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1.
  2. 1 2 Euterebra lightfooti (E.A. Smith, 1899).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Edgar A. (1899). "Descriptions of New Species of South African Marine Shells". The Journal of Conchology. 9 (8): 247; Pl. 5, Fig. 1.
  4. ↑ Barnard, K. H. (1958). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African Marine Mollusca. Part I. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa". Annals of the South African Museum. 44: 79.
  5. ↑ Barnard, K. H. (1969). "Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement". Annals of the South African Museum. 47 (4): 596.


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