Joculator alligatus

Joculator alligatus
Shell of Joculator alligatus (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Family:	Cerithiopsidae
Genus:	Joculator
Species:	J. alligatus
Binomial name
Joculator alligatus Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012

Joculator alligatus is a species of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.^[1]

The species was first described by Cecalupo and Perugia in 2012.

Distribution[edit]

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.

References[edit]

• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2012) Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea). Quaderni della Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30: 1-262
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2017). Cerithiopsidae and Newtoniellidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from New Caledonia, western Pacific. Visaya. suppl. 7: 1-175
• Cecalupo A. & Perugia I. (2018). New species of Cerithiopsidae (Gastropoda: Triphoroidea) from Papua New Guinea (Pacific Ocean). Visaya. suppl. 11: 1-187.