Biology:Chlanidota signeyana

Short description: Species of gastropod

Chlanidota signeyana
Shell of Chlanidota signeyana (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Chlanidota
Species:	C. signeyana
Binomial name
Chlanidota signeyana Powell, 1951
Synonyms
Chlanidota elongata (Lamy, 1910) Chlanidota lamyi Dell, 1990 Chlanidota pyriformis Dell, 1990 Cominella vestita var. elongata Lamy, 1910 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Cominella elongata (Dunker, 1857); Chlanidota lamyi is a replacement name)

Chlanidota signeyana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. It was described by Harold Powell in 1951.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Timor.

References

• Lamy, Ed., 1910. Mission dans l'Antarctique dirigée par M. le Dr. Charcot (1908-1910). Collections recueillies par M. le Dr J. Liouville. Gastropodes prosobranches et scaphopodes. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 16: 318-324
• Dell, R. K. (1990). Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington 27: 1–311
• Engl, W. (2012). Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp

External links

• Powell A. W. B. (1951). Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda. Discovery Reports, 26: 47-196, pl. 5-10.
• Griffiths, H.J.; Linse, K.; Crame, J.A. (2003). SOMBASE - Southern Ocean mollusc database: a tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3: 207-213

Wikidata ☰ Q5102752 entry