Joculator minutus

Joculator minutus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cerithiopsidae.[1] The species was described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Joculator minutus
Shell of Joculator minutus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:
Triphoroidea
Family:
Cerithiopsidae
Genus:
Joculator
Species:
J. minutus
Binomial name
Joculator minutus
Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.

References
  1. Joculator minutus at World Register of Marine Species.
  • Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1-262.
  • Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187


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