Joculator acuminatus

Joculator acuminatus
Shell of Joculator acuminatus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Cerithiopsidae
Genus:	Joculator
Species:	J. acuminatus
Binomial name
Joculator acuminatus Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Joculator acuminatus is a species of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae. It was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

References

• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1-262
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2016). Report on some Cerithiopsidae from Indo-Pacific area (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Bollettino Malacologico. 52(2): 98-109.
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2017). Cerithiopsidae and Newtoniellidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from New Caledonia, western Pacific. Visaya. suppl. 7: 1-175
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187.