Makiyamaia Explained

Makiyamaia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is known as fossils from the Miocene to the Recent of Japan, the Pliocene of Okinawa. In Recent times it is found in the South China Sea, Korea and the Philippines and off South Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Makiyamaia include:

• Makiyamaia coreanica (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
• Makiyamaia cornulabrum Kuroda, 1961
• † Makiyamaia decorata Oleinik 1991 ^[2]
• Makiyamaia gravis (Hinds, 1843)
• Makiyamaia mammillata Kuroda, 1961
• Makiyamaia orthopleura (Kilburn, 1983)
• Makiyamaia scalaria (Barnard, 1958)
• Makiyamaia sibogae Shuto, 1970
• Makiyamaia subdeclivis (Yokoyama, M., 1926)

References

• F. S. MacNeil. 1961. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339:1-148, p. 106 [Dated 1960, distributed 17 March 1961]. MacNeil described Makiyamaia but attributed the name to Tokubei Kuroda.

Notes and References

1. P. Bouchet . Yu. I. Kantor . A. Sysoev . N. Puillandre . 2011 . A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) . . 77 . 3 . 273–308 . 10.1093/mollus/eyr017. free .
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=110124 Fossilworks: Makiyamaia decorata