Conasprella kitteredgei

Conasprella kitteredgei is a species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]

Conasprella kitteredgei
Three views of a shell of Conasprella kitteredgei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conasprella
Species:
C. kitteredgei
Binomial name
Conasprella kitteredgei
(Maury, 1917)
Synonyms[1]
  • † Conasprella (Ximenoconus) kitteredgei (Maury,1917) accepted, alternate representation
  • † Conus kitteredgei Maury, 1917 (original combination)
  • † Perplexiconus kitteredgei (Maury), Tucker and Tenorio, 2009

Distribution

This fossil species is known from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella kitteredgei (Maury, 1917) †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843122 on 2015-06-16


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