Perrona quinteni

Perrona quinteni
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
Binomial name
Perrona quinteni
(Nolf & Verstraeten, 2006)[1]

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ 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.