Cantrainea inexpectata is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.[1]
Cantrainea inexpectata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Colloniidae |
Genus: | Cantrainea |
Species: | C. inexpectata
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Binomial name | |
Cantrainea inexpectata B.A. Marshall, 1979
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Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to New Zealand.[2]
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Cantrainea inexpectata B.A. Marshall, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512325 on 2013-02-10
- ^ B. A. Marshall (1979) The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 6:4, 521-552, DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1979.10428396
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