Cancilla schepmani

Cancilla schepmani
	Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Cancilla
Species:	C. schepmani
Binomial name
	Cancilla schepmani; (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
Synonyms
	Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym); Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name); Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003; Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003); Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911); Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003);

Cancilla schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.^[2]

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The specific name schepmani is in honor of Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman.

Distribution

Cancilla schepmani

Shell of Cancilla schepmani (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mitridae
Genus:	Cancilla
Species:	C. schepmani
Binomial name
*Cancilla schepmani* (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)^[1]
Synonyms
Mitra (Mitra) schepmani R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 (basionym) Mitra millepunctata Schepman, 1911 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitra millepunctata G.B. Sowerby III, 1889; Mitra schepmani is a replacement name) Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003 Scabricola (Swainsonia) schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003) Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911) Swainsonia schepmani (R. Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)