Hemilienardia ecprepes

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

Hemilienardia ecprepes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Hemilienardia
Species:
H. ecprepes
Binomial name
Hemilienardia ecprepes
(Melvill, 1927)
Synonyms[1]

Lienardia ecprepes Melvill, 1927 (original combination)

Description edit

The length of the shell attains 6 mm.

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

References edit

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Hemilienardia ecprepes (Melvill, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=980549 on 2019-07-01
  • Wiedrick S.G. (2017). Aberrant geomorphological affinities in four conoidean gastropod genera, Clathurella Carpenter, 1857 (Clathurellidae), Lienardia Jousseaume, 1884 (Clathurellidae), Etrema Hedley, 1918 (Clathurellidae) and Hemilienardia Boettger, 1895 (Raphitomidae), with the descriptionof fourteen new Hemilienardia species from the Indo-Pacific. The Festivus. special issue: 2-45.

External links edit

  • Melvill, J. C. (1927). Descriptions of eight new species of the family Turridae and of a new species of Mitra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 17(4): 149–155
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • Gastropods.com: Lienardia (Lienardia) ecprepes