Miraclathurella vittata
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| Miraclathurella vittata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Miraclathurella |
| Species: | M. vittata |
| Binomial name | |
| Miraclathurella vittata (Woodring 1928) | |
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† Euclathurella (Miraclathurella) entemma Woodring, 1928 | |
Miraclathurella vittata is an extinct Pliocene species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1] The species was discovered by Wendell Woodring in 1928.[2]
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.1 mm.[2] Woodring described the genus Miraclathurella and identified two species. M. vittata was differentiated from M. entemna by a "protoconch of about three whorls, about the last half whorl bearing an anterior keel, behind which lie axial riblets.”[3]
