Enigmaticolus nipponensis

Enigmaticolus nipponensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.[2]

Enigmaticolus nipponensis
Shell of Enigmaticolus nipponensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Eosiphonidae
Genus:
Enigmaticolus
Species:
E. nipponensis
Binomial name
Enigmaticolus nipponensis
Fraussen, 2008[1]
Synonyms
  • Enigmaticolus inflatus S.-Q. Zhang, S.-P. Zhang & H. Chen, 2020
  • Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008
  • Eosipho desbruyeresi nipponensis Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000 (basionym)

Description

The length of the shell attains 63.7 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Madagascar and in the Okinawa Trough

References
  1. Fraussen (2008). Gloria Maris 46 (4–5) : 74–82. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1471616 on 2022-09-27
  • Fraussen K. 2008. Enigmaticolus, a new genus of deep water buccinids (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of a new species from Madagascar. Gloria Maris, 46(4-5): 74-82
  • Okutani T. & Fujiwara Y. (2000). Gastropod fauna of a thermal vent site on the North Knoll of Iheya Ridge, Okinawa Trough. Venus 59(2) : 123-128
  • Zhang S.-Q. [Shuqian, Zhang S.-P. [Suping] & Chen H. [Hao]. (2020). Enigmaticolus inflatus sp. nov., a new buccinid species from a methane seep area in the South China Sea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zootaxa. 4728(3): 385-389.]
  • Chen C. [Ching, Xu T. [Ting], Fraussen K. & Qiu J.-W. [Jian-Wen]. (2020). Integrative taxonomy of enigmatic deep-sea true whelks in the sister-genera Enigmaticolus and Thermosipho (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa134: 20 pp]
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