Kilburniola maculosa

Kilburniola maculosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Costellariidae
Genus: Kilburniola
Species:
K. maculosa
Binomial name
Kilburniola maculosa
(Turner & Simone, 1997)

Kilburniola maculosa is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]

Description

The length of this species attains 13.4 mmm, its diameter 5.4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs at the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Atlantic Ocean.

References

  • Turner, H. & Simone, L. R. L (1998). "Austromitra maculosa, a new species of Costellariidae from South Africa (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 127 (1–2). Retrieved 9 March 2026.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Fedosov, A.; Bouchet, P.; Dekkers, A.; Gori, S.; Huang, S.-I.; Kantor, Y.; Lemarcis, T.; Marrow, M.; Ratti, C.; Rosenberg, G.; Salisbury, R.; Zvonareva, S.; Puillandre, N. (2025). "The phylogeny and systematics of the Costellariidae (Caenogastropoda: Turbinelloidea) revisited". Invertebrate Systematics. 39 (7): 26. doi:10.1071/is24101. PMID 40608992.