Pterygia jeanjacquesi

Pterygia jeanjacquesi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Description

SPECIMEN

SEC

MNHN-IM-2000-23786

Size 12

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

TAXONOMY

Mollusca

Gastropoda

Neogastropoda

Mitridae

Pterygia

Pterygia jeanjacquesi

Name: Pterygia jeanjacquesi Bozzetti, 2010 https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2000-23786

ORIGIN

Country label

Locality

Lavanono

Ocean

Indien

Island

Madagascar

Type locality

Madagascar, Lavanono

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar. https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/item/search

References

• Bozzetti, L., 2010. Pterygia jeanjacquesi (Gastropoda: Hypsogastropoda: Mitridae) nuova specie dal Madagascar meridionale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 68: 14-15

External links

• 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