Chauvetia candidissima

Chauvetia candidissima
Shell of Chauvetia candidissima (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Chauvetiidae
Genus: Chauvetia
Species:
C. candidissima
Binomial name
Chauvetia candidissima
(Philippi, 1836)
Synonyms
  • Buccinum candidissimum R. A. Philippi, 1836 · superseded combination
  • Donovania candidissima (R. A. Philippi, 1836) superseded combination
  • Nassa rissoides Marrat, 1877

Chauvetia candidissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chauvetiidae, the true whelks.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia, in the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco.

References

  • Marrat, F. (1877). On some proposed new forms in the genus Nassa. Liverpool, privately printed, 15 pp., 1 pl.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.