Neocancilla rufescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.[1] [2]
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| Shell of Neocancilla rufescens (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
| Family: | Mitridae |
| Subfamily: | Imbricariinae |
| Genus: | Neocancilla |
| Species: | N. rufescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853)
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Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Mozambique.
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063089 on 2019-01-04
- ^ 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.
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