Microcancilla brasiliensis

Microcancilla brasiliensis
Shell of Microcancilla brasiliensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Microcancilla
Species:	M. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Microcancilla brasiliensis (Verhecken, 1991)
Synonyms[1]
Axelella brasiliensis Verhecken, 1991 (basionym) Pseudobabylonella brasiliensis (Verhecken, 1991)

Microcancilla brasiliensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Brazil.

References

1. Pseudobabylonella brasiliensis (Verhecken, 1991). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 December 2012.

External links

• Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8
• Verhecken, A. (1991). Description of two new species of bathyal Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from off Brazil. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. ser. 4, section A, 12(3-4): 547-553.
• Souza, L.S. de, Pimenta, A.D. & Miyaji, C. (2021). A new species of Microcancilla from the southwestern Atlantic and notes on Microcancilla brasiliensis comb. nov. (Gastropoda, Cancellariidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia. 61: e20216129