Nepotilla minuta

Nepotilla minuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Nepotilla
Species: N. minuta
Binomial name
Nepotilla minuta
(Tenison-Woods, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella mimica fusca Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1897
  • Daphnella minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
  • Drillia minuta Tenison-Woods, 1877
  • Zenepos minuta (Tenison-Woods, 1877)

Nepotilla minuta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

References

  • Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1877. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131-159
  • Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1897. List of Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 2: 24-32
  • Tate, R. & May, W.L. 1901. A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26(3): 344-471
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  • May, W.L. 1923. An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells: with 47 plates and 1052 species. Hobart : Government Printer 100 pp.


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