Bivetiella cancellata

Bivetiella cancellata
File:Bivetiella cancellata.JPG
Apertural view of shell of Bivetiella cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Bivetiella
Species:	B. cancellata
Binomial name
Bivetiella cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
Buccinella rotundata Perry, G., 1811 Buccinum pyrozonias Gmelin, 1791 Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767) Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata var. elongata Kobelt, 1904 Cancellaria cancellata (Linnaeus, 1767) Cancellaria cancellata var. elongata Kobelt, 1904 Cancellaria cancellata var. infracosticillata Sacco, 1894 Cancellaria cancellata var. minor Almera & Bofill, 1884 Cancellaria costata Sowerby, G.B. I, 1822 Cantharus triplicatus Röding, P.F., 1798 Murex scabriculus Linnaeus, 1758 (Declared nomen oblitum under ICZN Art. 23.9 by Verhecken (2007)) Murex scabriusculus Linnaeus, 1767 Voluta cancellata Linnaeus, 1767

Bivetiella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 20mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

File:Bivetiella cancellata fossil 01.jpg

A fossil specimen from the Pliocene of Italy

This species occurs in European waters, the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa and Angola.

References

• Verhecken A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema : 29(2): 281-364

External links

• Gastropods.com : Cancellaria (Cancellaria) cancellata; accessed : 29 October 2010