Makiyamaia coreanica

Makiyamaia coreanica
Apertural view of a shell of Makiyamaia coreanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Makiyamaia
Species: M. coreanica
Binomial name
Makiyamaia coreanica
(Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Leucosyrinx coreanica (Adams & Reeve, 1850). Kuroda and Habe, 1952: 62
  • Pleurotoma coreanica Adams & Reeve, 1850
  • Pleurotoma shimomatana Yokoyama, 1926
  • Pleurotoma subdeclivis Yokoyama, 1928
  • Turricula coreanica (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
  • Turricula shimomatana (Yokoyama, 1926)

Makiyamaia coreanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1] [2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 50.9 mm. The whorls are angular and tuberculated in the middle. These tubercles develop from more or less indistinct oblique folds or ribs, everywhere closely encircled by striae. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, the tubercles lighter. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Korea, Japan and Taiwan; also reported from the China seas. .

References

  1. 1 2 Makiyamaia coreanica (Adams & Reeve, 1850).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  3. George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol; VI, p. 237; 1884 (considered a not fully grown specimen of Surcula javana)
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