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Sveltia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Cancellarioidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Cancellariidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Trigonostoma, Scalptia, Cancellariidae, Merica, Cancellaria

Sveltia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

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Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Pliocene (age range: from 55.8 to 2.588 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Panama, Nigeria and United States.

Species

Species within the genus Sveltia include:

  • Sveltia centrota (Dall, 1896)
  • Sveltia gladiator (Petit, 1976)
  • Sveltia lyrata (Brocchi, 1814)
  • Sveltia rocroii Bouchet & Petit, 2002
  • Sveltia splendidula Bouchet & Petit, 2002

    • References

    Sveltia Wikipedia
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