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Kyllinia marchadi

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ13378553 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kyllinia marchadi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Senegal, Guinea and Angola.

References

Knudsen, J. 1956. Remarks on a collection of marine Prosobranchs from Senegal Bulletin de l’Institut Franc¸ais d’Afrique Noire. XVIII, s. A, 2:514–529.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

"Kyllinia marchadi".

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This entry incorporates text from “Kyllinia marchadi” 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.