Nihonia circumstricta
| Nihonia circumstricta | |
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| Original image of a shell of Nihonia circumstricta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Cochlespiridae |
| Genus: | Nihonia |
| Species: | N. circumstricta |
| Binomial name | |
| Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901) | |
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Nihonia circumstricta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. [1] [2]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 50 mm and 65 mm, its diameter between 15.5 mm and 19 mm. The shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. It contains 9 weakly angulate whorls
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania at depths between 300-400 m.
References
- 1 2 Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 August 2011.
- ↑ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
- E. von Martens, Sitzungsberichte d. Gesellsch. nat. Freunde Berlin, 1901, p. 15.
External links
- Martens, E. von. "Einige neue meer-conchylien von der deutschen tiefsee-expedition." Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1901: 14 26.1904 (1901): 1-179
- Indo-Pacific Mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History v. 2 no. 9-10 (1968-1969)
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