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Kurtziella serta

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ13378481 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kurtziella serta, common name the wreath mangelia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

Distribution

K. serta can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from Panama to Southern Brazil; also off Martinique.

Fossils of this extinct marine species has been found in Pliocene strata of Florida, United States, and in Pliocene strata in Mexico.

References

Fargo, W. G. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida. Part II. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18 365–409, pls. 16-24

External links

"Kurtziella serta". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kurtziella serta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.