Kelletia lischkei explained

Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.^[1]

Description

Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of buccinid whelk.^{[2] [3]}

Distribution

The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea^[4] and eastern Japan.^[2] Fossils of K. lischkei occur in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan,^[5] and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis.^[6]

External links

• World Register of Marine Species: Kelletia lischkei (Kuroda, 1938)

Notes and References

1. Kantor, Yuri I.. Fedosov, Alexander E.. Kosyan, Alisa R.. Puillandre, Nicolas. Sorokin, Pavel A.. Kano, Yasunori. Clark, Roger. Bouchet, Philippe. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2022. 194. 3. 789–857. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
2. The molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae (Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda) as inferred from the complete mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene sequences of selected representatives . Molluscan Research . 25 . 85–98 . 2005 . Hayashi . Seiji .
3. 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018 . A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 . 2017 . 367–381 . 2017 . Vaux . Felix . Hills . Simon F.K. . Marshall . Bruce A. . Trewick . Steven A. . Morgan-Richards . Mary . 28669812 .
4. Hwang . H. . Kang . J. . Cho . I. . Kang . D. . Paek . W.K. . Lee . S.H. . 2014 . Benthic invertebrate fauna in the islets of Namuseom and Bukhyeongjeseom off Busan . Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity . 7 . e206–e212 . 10.1016/j.japb.2014.03.009 . free .
5. Ogasawara, K. 2002. Cenozoic Gastropoda. In: Ikeya, N., Hirano, H., Ogasawara, K. eds. The database of Japanese fossil type specimens described during the 20th Century (Part 2). Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Paper 40. University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
6. Ozaki . H . 1954 . On the palaeontology of the basal conglommerate of Pliocene Tyoshi City, Kanto Region . Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo . 34 . 9–21 .