Mangelia paessleri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell (and protoconch) of Mangelia paessleri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Mangelia |
| Species: | M. paessleri
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| Mangelia paessleri (Strebel, 1905)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Tierra del Fuego.
It is also found as a fossil in Quaternary strata in Chile; age range: 2.588 to 0.781 Ma[2]
References edit
- ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2010). Mangelia paessleri (Strebel, 1905). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533020 on 2017-09-14
- ^ Fossilworks : Bela paesleri
- Strebel, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz; Jena,Gustav Fischer,1904–1907
- Forcelli, D.O. (2000) Moluscos Magallanicos Guia de Moluscos de Patagonia y Sur de Chile. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, Santiago. 200 pp.
- S. N. Nielson and C. Valdovinos. 2008. Early Pleistocene mollusks of the Tubul Formation, south-central Chile. The Nautilus 122(4):201–216
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- "Mangelia paessleri". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.