Kuroshioturris nipponica explained

Kuroshioturris nipponica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan and the Philippines at depths between 100 m and 1445 m.

References

• Shuto T. (1961). Conacean gastropods from the Miyazaki Group (Paleontological study of the Miyazaki Group-IX). Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, series D, Geology. 11(2): 71-150, pls 3-10.
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 p
• Kantor, Yuri I., Alexander Fedosov, and Nicolas Puillandre. "New and unusual deep-water Conoidea revised with shell, radula and DNA characters." Ruthenica 28.2 (2018).

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
• Gastropods.com: Kuroshioturris nipponica

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kuroshioturris nipponica (Shuto, 1961). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1058739 on 2021-04-18