Biology:Otitoma oyamai

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Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Otitoma oyamai
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Otitoma
Species:
O. oyamai
Binomial name
Otitoma oyamai
(T. Shuto, 1965)
Synonyms
  • Agladrillia oyamai Shuto, 1965 (original combination)
  • Thelecytharella oyamai (Shuto, 1965)

Otitoma oyamai is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

This species used to be the type species of Thelecytharella (now considered a synonym of Otitoma).

Description

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Upper Pleistocene strata in Kyushu, Japan .

References

  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Otitoma oyamai (Shuto, 1965) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=987280 on 2018-12-26
  • Shuto, Tsugio. Turrid Gastropods from the Upper Pleistocene Moeshima Shell Bed. Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 1965.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q60792487 entry