Biology:Mikadotrochus salmianus
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of gastropod
| Mikadotrochus salmianus | |
|---|---|
.jpeg)
| |
| Shell of Mikadotrochus salmianus neocaledonicus (paratype at MNHN. Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurotomariida |
| Superfamily: | Pleurotomarioidea |
| Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
| Genus: | Mikadotrochus |
| Species: | M. salmianus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Mikadotrochus salmianus (Rolle, 1899)[1]
| |
| Synonyms[3] | |
Mikadotrochus salmianus, common name the Salmiana slit shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.[3]
- Subspecies
- Mikadotrochus salmianus neocaledonicus Anseeuw, 2016[4]
- Mikadotrochus salmianus salmianus (Rolle, 1899)
Description
The shell is broadly trochiform, almost conical in shape. The shell is false umbilicus and spirally twisted on all sides. The shell is off-white in color with blazed red spirals. It is almost exactly conical with a broken or flattened tip. It is surrounded on all sides with furrows or traces of growth.[5]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan , Fiji Islands and the Philippines .
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rolle, Hermann (1899). Eine neue Pleurotomaria. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. 31(3/4) 62; (11/12): 161–164, 1 p
- ↑ 鹿間時夫. "銚子沖産長者貝 salmiana について." 貝類学雑誌ヴヰナス 21.4 (1961): 500-506. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjma/21/4/21_KJ00004339269/_article/-char/ja/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Mikadotrochus salmianus (Rolle, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467984 on 2013-02-16
- ↑ Anseeuw P. (2016). Two new pleurotomariid subspecies from the South Pacific (Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae). Visaya. 4(5): 43-57. https://www.vliz.be/en/catalogue?module=ref&refid=305033
- ↑ Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft; Gesellschaft, Deutsche Malakozoologische (1897). Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 29. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag W. Küchler. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89671.
External links
- Mikadotrochus salmianus in the USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- Mikadotrochus salmiana in the USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- "Mikadotrochus salmianus" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/6/Shell_1116.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q13856590 entry
 |  |
