Otitoma oyamai
Appearance
Otitoma oyamai | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Otitoma |
Species: | †O. oyamai
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Binomial name | |
†Otitoma oyamai (T. Shuto, 1965)
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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
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Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this marine species were found in Upper Pleistocene strata in Kyushu, Japan.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
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