Africotriton fictilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Africotriton fictilis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Africotriton
Species:
A. fictilis
Binomial name
Africotriton fictilis
(Hinds, 1844a)
Synonyms[1]
  • Colubraria fictilis (Hinds, 1844)
  • Nivitriton fictilis (Hinds, 1844) ·
  • Triton fictilis Hinds, 1844a

Description

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The length of the shell attains 21 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The solid, ovate shell has a gray color. The whorls are rounded with longitudinal, obliquely folded ribs and narrow transverse striae. The spirals barely extend beyond the aperture, which is polished, deep, and smoothed with a contracted callous opening.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Agulhas Bank, South Africa.

References

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  • Beu, A. G.; Maxwell, P. A. (1987). A revision of the fossil and living gastropods related to Plesiotriton Fischer, 1884 (Family Cancellariidae, Subfamily Plesiotritoninae n. subfam.). With an appendix: Genera of Buccinidae Pisaniinae related to Colubraria Schumacher, 1817. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 54: 1-140.
  • Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
  • Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp
  • Verhecken A. (2020). New and poorly known species of Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Gloria Maris. 59(2): 40-89.
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