Scalptia hystrix is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Gulf of Aden.
References
Jousseaume, F., 1894. Description d'une espèce nouvelle. Le Naturaliste 8 n°179: 186, sér. 2 Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
External links Reeve, L. A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Cancellaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10, pl. 1-18 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London