Mangelia paessleri explained

Mangelia paessleri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tierra del Fuego.

It is also found as a fossil in Quaternary strata in Chile; age range: 2.588 to 0.781 Ma^[2]

References

• Strebel, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz; Jena,Gustav Fischer,1904–1907
• Forcelli, D.O. (2000) Moluscos Magallanicos Guia de Moluscos de Patagonia y Sur de Chile. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, Santiago. 200 pp.
• S. N. Nielson and C. Valdovinos. 2008. Early Pleistocene mollusks of the Tubul Formation, south-central Chile. The Nautilus 122(4):201–216

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Mangelia paessleri (Strebel, 1905). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533020 on 2017-09-14
2. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=146975 Fossilworks : Bela paesleri