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Mangelia elegantissima

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Mangelia elegantissima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. elegantissima
Binomial name
Mangelia elegantissima
E.W. Vredenburg, 1921

Mangelia elegantissima is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Not to be confounded with Mangelia elegantissima (Melvill & Standen, 1903), originally described as Cythara elegantissima and now a synonym of Paraclathurella gracilenta (Reeve, 1843)

Description

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Distribution

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This extinct marine species was found in Miocene strata of Myanmar

References

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  1. ^ E.W. Vredenburg. Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vol. li (1921).
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