Mangelia dobsoni

Mangelia dobsoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Mangelia
Species:	M. dobsoni
Binomial name
	Mangelia dobsoni; Grabau, A.W. & S.G. King, 1928

Mangelia dobsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

This is a taxon inquirendum.

Description

The figure published by Grabau and King is remarkably similar to the figure published by Dunker in 1860 as Mangelia costulata (Dunker, 1860) and now with the accepted name Mangelia dunkeri Kuroda, 1961

Distribution

This marine species occurs off China.

References

^ P. Bartsch (1915), Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum; Bulletin of the United States National Museum v. 91 (1915) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Grabau, A. W. & S. G. King, 1928f, Shells of Peitaiho, 2nd ed. Peking Society of Natural History, Hand-Book No. 2: vi + 279 + [1 – Errata] pp., 11 pls.

External links

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[Bartsch-1] P. Bartsch (1915), Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United States National Museum; Bulletin of the United States National Museum v. 91 (1915) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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