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Sasakiconcha elegantissima

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Sasakiconcha elegantissima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Family: Anatomidae
Genus: Sasakiconcha
Species:
S. elegantissima
Binomial name
Sasakiconcha elegantissima
Geiger, 2006[1]

Sasakiconcha elegantissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Anatomidae.[2]

Description

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Distribution

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This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Austral Islands, French Polynesia

References

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  • Geiger D.L. 2006. Sasakiconcha elegantissima new genus and new species (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Anatomidae?) with disjointly coiled base. The Nautilus 120(2): 45–51.
  • Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7