Cancilla schepmani
Species of gastropod
| Cancilla schepmani |
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| Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris) |
Scientific classification  |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
| Order: |
Neogastropoda |
| Family: |
Mitridae |
| Genus: |
Cancilla |
| Species: |
C. schepmani |
| Binomial name |
Cancilla schepmani
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| Synonyms |
- Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym)
- Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name)
- Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003
- Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
- Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911)
- Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
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Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.
The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.
External links
- Schepman M.M. (1911) The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Rachiglossa. Siboga-Expeditie, 49d: 247-363, pls. 18–24. Leiden, E.J. Brill.
- Salisbury R. & Guillot de Suduiraut E. 2003. Three new deep-water miters (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mitridae) from the Western Indo-Pacific with a new name for Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911. Novapex 4(1): 1-9
- Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337