Nipponaphera cyphoma
Appearance
Nipponaphera cyphoma | |
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Shell of Nipponaphera cyphoma (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Nipponaphera |
Species: | N. cyphoma
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Binomial name | |
Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002[1]
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Nipponaphera cyphoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 12.9 mm.
Its shell is a rounded spiral shape with lengthwise brown barring alternating with white ridges. The lower brown gradients to a black-grey with tones of brown as the shell tapers to a point.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off New Caledonia. It is a deep-water Cancellariidae from the southwestern Pacific Ocean. [3]
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchet & Petit. 2002. Nautilus 116 (3): 95–104. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- ^ "Molluscabase - Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002". molluscabase.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- Bouchet P. & Petit R.E. (2008). New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae. The Nautilus 122(1): 1-18.