Biology:Plicifusus minor

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Plicifusus minor
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Tudiclidae
Genus: Plicifusus
Species:
P. minor
Binomial name
Plicifusus minor
(Dall, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Colus minor (Dall, 1925)
  • Volutopsius minor Dall, 1925 (original combination)

Colus minor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 57 mm


Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk.[2]

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Plicifusus minor (Dall, 1925). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037202 on 2022-11-20
  2. Guldin, Vladimir (2009). "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda". The Korean Journal of Malacology 3: 4. http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/tmsk/GPRHB@/2009/v25n1/GPRHB@_2009_v25n1_51.pdf. 
  • Okutani T. (2017). Family Buccinidae. Pp. 917-939, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp.

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