Kuroshioturris nipponica
Kuroshioturris nipponica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
| Kuroshioturris nipponica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Kuroshioturris |
| Species: | K. nipponica |
| Binomial name | |
| Kuroshioturris nipponica (Shuto, 1961) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 8 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan and the Philippines at depths between 100 m and 1445 m.
References
- MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kuroshioturris nipponica (Shuto, 1961). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1058739 on 2021-04-18
- Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10.
- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p
- Kantor, Yuri I., Alexander Fedosov, and Nicolas Puillandre. "New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters." Ruthenica 28.2 (2018).
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris nipponica
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