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Mikadotrochus salmianus

Summary

Mikadotrochus salmianus, common name the Salmiana slit shell, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.[3]

Mikadotrochus salmianus
Shell of Mikadotrochus salmianus neocaledonicus (paratype at MNHN. Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Pleurotomariida
Superfamily: Pleurotomarioidea
Family: Pleurotomariidae
Genus: Mikadotrochus
Species:
M. salmianus
Binomial name
Mikadotrochus salmianus
(Rolle, 1899)[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Mikadotrochus schmalzi Shikama, 1961[2]
  • Pleurotomaria salmiana Rolle, 1899[1]
Subspecies
  • Mikadotrochus salmianus neocaledonicus Anseeuw, 2016[4]
  • Mikadotrochus salmianus salmianus (Rolle, 1899)

Description edit

The shell is broadly trochiform, almost conical in shape. The shell is false umbilicus and spirally twisted on all sides. The shell is off-white in color with blazed red spirals. It is almost exactly conical with a broken or flattened tip. It is surrounded on all sides with furrows or traces of growth.[5]

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan, Fiji Islands and the Philippines.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Rolle, Hermann (1899). Eine neue Pleurotomaria. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. 31(3/4) 62; (11/12): 161–164, 1 p
  2. ^ 鹿間時夫. "銚子沖産長者貝 salmiana について." 貝類学雑誌ヴヰナス 21.4 (1961): 500-506. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjma/21/4/21_KJ00004339269/_article/-char/ja/
  3. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Mikadotrochus salmianus (Rolle, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=467984 Archived 2012-11-10 at the Wayback Machine on 2013-02-16
  4. ^ Anseeuw P. (2016). Two new pleurotomariid subspecies from the South Pacific (Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae). Visaya. 4(5): 43-57. https://www.vliz.be/en/catalogue?module=ref&refid=305033
  5. ^ Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft; Gesellschaft, Deutsche Malakozoologische (1897). Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. Vol. 29. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag W. Küchler.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mikadotrochus salmianus.
  • Mikadotrochus salmianus in the USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • Mikadotrochus salmiana in the USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • "Mikadotrochus salmianus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.