Scalptia costifera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Scalptia |
| Species: | S. costifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Scalptia costifera (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)
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Description
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Scalptia costifera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1597554 on 2022-10-13
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp.
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
- Patterson Edward, J. K.; Ravinesh, R. & Biju Kumar, A. (2022). Molluscs of the Gulf of Mannar, India and adjacent waters: A fully illustrated guide. Suganthi Devadason Marien Research Institute & Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala. Tuticorin. i-xx, 1-524.
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