Kelletia kelletii

Kelletia kelletii
Temporal range: Pleistocene[1]-Recent
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Austrosiphonidae
Genus: Kelletia
Species:
K. kelletii
Binomial name
Kelletia kelletii
(Forbes, 1850)[2]
Synonyms

Fusus kelletii Forbes, 1850 (original combination)
Siphonalia kelletii (Forbes, 1850)

Kelletia kelletii, common name Kellet's whelk, is a species of large sea snail, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the whelk family Austrosiphonidae.[3][4][5][6]

Kelletia kelletii is a large scavenger[5][7] and predatory sea snail commonly found in subtidal kelp forests, rocky reefs, and cobble-sand interfaces at depths ranging from 2 to 70 m from Isla Asunción, Baja California, Mexico to Monterey, California, USA.[8] It aggregates seasonally for mating and is slow-growing.[8] It is also a recently targeted fishery species[8] and a subject of a rapidly expanding fishery.[9]

  1. ^ Arnold R. (1903). "The paleontology and stratigraphy of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California". Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 3: 1-420. page 229, plate 4, figure 5.
  2. ^ Forbes E. (1850). "On the species of Mollusca collected during the Surveying Voyages of the Herald and Pandora, by Capt. Kellett, R.N., C.B. and Lieut. Wood, R.N.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 18: 270-274. plate IX, figure 10.
  3. ^ Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
  4. ^ Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
  5. ^ a b Vaux, Felix; Crampton, James S.C.; Trewick, Steven A.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Beu, Alan G.; Hills, Simon F.K.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2018). "Evolutionary lineages of marine snails identified using molecular phylogenetics and geometric morphometric analysis of shells". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127 (October 2018): 626–637. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.009. PMID 29913310. S2CID 49303166.
  6. ^ Daniels, Benjamin N.; Andrasz, Cassidy L.; Zarate, Nicholas; Lee, Andy; López, Cataixa; Anderson, Paul; Toonen, Roberts J.; Christie, Mark R.; White, Crow; Davidson, Jean M. (2023). "De novo genome and transcriptome assembly of Kelletia kelletii, a coastal gastropod and fisheries species exhibiting a northern range expansion". Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1278131.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rosenthal 1971 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Romero 2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hubbard 2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).