Nepotilla
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| Nepotilla | |
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| Nepotilla lamellosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Nepotilla Hedley, 1918 |
| Type species | |
| Daphnella bathentoma Verco, 1909 | |
| Species | |
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Nepotilla is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
This genus is allied to Eucyclotoma by its spirally grooved protoconch, but distinguished there from by its minute size, turreted spire, and few whorls.[2]
Distribution
Species of this genus occur off New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria).
