Joculator alligatus

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

Joculator alligatus is a species of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.

The species was first described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off 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. (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.