Afer echinatus is a species of large sea snail, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tudiclidae.[2]
| Afer echinatus | |
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| Shell of Afer echinatus (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Tudiclidae |
| Genus: | Afer |
| Species: | A. echinatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Afer echinatus Fraussen, 2008[1]
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 26.7 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco and Mauritania to Senegal. [3]
References
edit- ^ Fraussen (2008). Novapex 9 (1) : 41–48. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ Afer echinatus Fraussen, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ^ MNHN, Paris: Afer echinatus
- Fraussen K. (2008). The genus Afer Conrad, 1858 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae), with descriptions of a new subgenus and a new species from western Africa. Novapex 9(1): 41-48
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