Perrona quinteni
| Perrona quinteni | |
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| Shell of Perrona quinteni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Clavatulidae |
| Genus: | Perrona |
| Species: | P. quinteni
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| Binomial name | |
| Perrona quinteni (Nolf & Verstraeten, 2006)[1]
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Perrona quinteni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae, first described in 2006.[2][3]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 46 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gabon, more specifically near Mayumba and Esterias. The range of this species is from the coast of Gabon to northern Angola.
References
- ^ Nolf. 2006. Recognition of two new Clavatula species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) in a complex group from Gabon and North Angola, pp.15-19, plates I-X , Neptunea, 5 (3) : 1–14. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Perrona quinteni (Nolf & Verstraeten, 2006). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1484053 on 2023-08-02
- ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
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