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Subcancilla scrobiculata

species of mollusc (fossil)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ5031493 ↗
Source-derived summary

Subcancilla scrobiculata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

Subspecies

Cancilla scrobiculata crosnieri Cernohorsky, 1970 (temporary name) (distribution: in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth of the Congo river) (synonym: Cancilla scrobiculata crosnieri Cernohorsky, 1970)

References

Cernohorsky W.O., (1970). New Mitridae and Volutomitridae. The Nautilus 83(3): 95-104

Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp.

External links

Brocchi, G. B. (1814).

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This entry incorporates text from “Subcancilla scrobiculata” 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.