Mancinella echinulata, common names Lamarck's spiny rock shell, Lamarck's spiny rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Mancinella echinulata
Shell of Mancinella echinulata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Mancinella
Species:
M. echinulata
Binomial name
Mancinella echinulata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Purpura echinulata Lamarck, 1822
  • Purpura lischkei Küster, 1860
  • Purpura luteomarginata Montrouzier, 1861
  • Purpura mancinelloides Blainville, 1832
  • Thais (Mancinella) echinulata (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Thais echinulata (Lamarck, 1822)

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Mancinella echinulata (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714199 on 2019-01-06
  • Souverbie, M. (1861) Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 9, 271–284, pl. 11.
  • Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102.
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