Nepotilla marmorata
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| Nepotilla marmorata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Nepotilla |
| Species: | N. marmorata |
| Binomial name | |
| Nepotilla marmorata (Verco, 1909) | |
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Nepotilla marmorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
Daphnella marmorata (Verco, 1909) is a junior homonym of Daphnella marmorata Hinds, 1844 [2]
Joseph Verco (1909) and J.K. Tucker (2004) considered this species as a variety of Nepotilla minuta. Verco described it as beautifully marbled with flames of white and deep blackish-brown. [3]
Charles Hedley (1922) considered it as a variety of Nepotilla mimica [4]
