Kuroshioturris nipponica

Kuroshioturris nipponica
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • † Gemmula (Ptychosyrinx) nipponica Shuto, 1961 (basionym)
  • Gemmula nipponica Shuto, 1961 (original combination)

Kuroshioturris nipponica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

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

  1. ^ a b 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).


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