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Nepotilla marmorata

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Nepotilla marmorata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Nepotilla
Species:
N. marmorata
Binomial name
Nepotilla marmorata
(Verco, 1909)
Synonyms[1]
  • Daphnella marmorata Verco, 1909
  • Nepotilla minuta marmorata (var.) (Verco, 1909)

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

Daphnella marmorata (Verco, 1909) is a junior homonym of Daphnella marmorata Hinds, 1844 [2]

Description

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Joseph Verco (1909) and J.K. Tucker (2004) considered this species as a variety of Nepotilla minuta. Verco described it as beautifully marbled with flames of white and deep blackish-brown. [3]

Charles Hedley (1922) considered it as a variety of Nepotilla mimica [4]

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania

References

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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.