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Neocancilla rufescens
Shell of Neocancilla rufescens (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Mitroidea
Family:	Mitridae
Subfamily:	Imbricariinae
Genus:	Neocancilla
Species:	N. rufescens
Binomial name
Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853)
Synonyms
Mitra rufescens A. Adams, 1853 Subcancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853)

Neocancilla rufescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Mozambique.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Neocancilla rufescens (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1063089 on 2019-01-04
2. Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337.

External links

• Adams, A. (1853). Description of fifty-two new species of the genus Mitra, from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851) 19: 132-141.

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