Enigmaticolus nipponensis
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| Shell of Enigmaticolus nipponensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Eosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Enigmaticolus |
| Species: | E. nipponensis
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| Enigmaticolus nipponensis Fraussen, 2008[1]
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Enigmaticolus nipponensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.[2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 63.7 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Madagascar and in the Okinawa Trough
References
[edit]- ^ Fraussen (2008). Gloria Maris 46 (4–5) : 74–82. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1471616 on 2022-09-27
- Fraussen K. 2008. Enigmaticolus, a new genus of deep water buccinids (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of a new species from Madagascar. Gloria Maris, 46(4-5): 74-82
- Okutani T. & Fujiwara Y. (2000). Gastropod fauna of a thermal vent site on the North Knoll of Iheya Ridge, Okinawa Trough. Venus 59(2) : 123-128
External links
[edit]- Zhang S.-Q. [Shuqian], Zhang S.-P. [Suping] & Chen H. [Hao]. (2020). Enigmaticolus inflatus sp. nov., a new buccinid species from a methane seep area in the South China Sea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zootaxa. 4728(3): 385-389.
- Chen C. [Ching], Xu T. [Ting], Fraussen K. & Qiu J.-W. [Jian-Wen]. (2020). Integrative taxonomy of enigmatic deep-sea true whelks in the sister-genera Enigmaticolus and Thermosipho (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa134: 20 pp