Merica oblonga
| Merica oblonga | |
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| Shell of Merica oblonga | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Merica |
| Species: | M. oblonga |
| Binomial name | |
| Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Merica oblonga is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
References
- 1 2 Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- Verhecken A. (1997). Mollusca Gastropoda: Arafura Sea Cancellariidae collected during the Karubar cruise. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 172: 295-323
- Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3-161. NIZT 682
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.
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