Raphitoma echinata

Raphitoma echinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species: R. echinata
Binomial name
Raphitoma echinata
(Brocchi, 1814)
Synonyms
  • Philbertia reticulata (Renieri, 1804) (published in a paper rejected by ICZN opinion 316)
  • Philbertia asperimma Brown, C.T., 1827

Raphitoma echinata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 12 mm and 20 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters from Norway to Madeira and in the Mediterranean Sea along Apulia and Greece.

References


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