Cancilla schepmani

Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Cancilla schepmani
Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Cancilla
Species:	C. schepmani
Binomial name
Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
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)

The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia and Sulu Island, Indonesia

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