Mangelia hooveri is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Mangelia painei | |
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| Original image of a shell of Mangelia painei | |
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. painei
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| Binomial name | |
| Mangelia painei R. Arnold, 1903
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| Synonyms | |
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Mangilia painei Arnold, 1903 | |
Description edit
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.2 mm.
(Original description) The small shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. The spire is elevated with a rounded apex It contains seven whorls, evenly convex, with about eleven slightly transverse, rounded ribs, which become obsolete at the sutures. The spiral sculpture is obsolete. The aperture is narrow, elliptical, narrowing anteriorly to siphonal canal. This siphonal canalis truncate in front. The posterior sinus is small. The outer lip is arcuate, thin, with a faint ridge on the interior. The suture is deeply impressed. The columella is long, smooth within, obsolete sculpture without. .[1]
Distribution edit
This extinct marine species was found in Pleistocene strata off San Pedro to San Diego, California, USA.
References edit
- ^ a b Ralph Arnold, The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 1903 v. 3
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