Nodicostellaria laterculata | |
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Nodicostellaria laterculata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
Family: | Costellariidae |
Genus: | Nodicostellaria |
Species: | N. laterculata
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Binomial name | |
Nodicostellaria laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1874)
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Nodicostellaria laterculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.[1]
The fusiform shell is cancellated. The spire is as long as the aperture. The whorls are angular. The body whorl is acuminated anteriorly, ornamented in the middle with a broad band bordered at each edge with tile-like spots. The aperture is ridged within.[2]
This marine species occurs off Guadeloupe.