Nihonia australis
| Nihonia australis | |
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| Two views of a shell of Nihonia australis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Cochlespiridae |
| Genus: | Nihonia |
| Species: | N. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Nihonia australis (Roissy, 1805) | |
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Nihonia australis, common name the Australian turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. [1]
The name Nihonia australis has often been attributed to Gmelin (1791:3542), as a result of a confusion between Murex australis Gmelin, 1791 [= Pelicaria vermis (Martyn, 1784)] and Pleurotoma australis Roissy, 1805 [= Nihonia australis]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 70 mm and 95 mm. The elongate-fusiform shell is yellowish white, encircled by raised, corded orange-brown ribs, with several intermediate striae. The blunt protoconch contains 1½ -2 whorls.The teleoconch contains 9½ -10 whorls. The outer lip is broadly rounded above into the rather shallow sinus.The long, straight siphonal canal is unnotched. [2] [3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan and Australia.
References
- 1 2 Nihonia australis (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 August 2011.
- ↑ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI p. 223; 1884 (described asSurcula australis)
- ↑ Indo-Pacific Mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History v. 2 no. 9-10 (1968-1969)
- Roissy (1805), Hist. Nat. Moll. Anim.. s.Vert, et sang, blanc. vol. 69, livraison 32, book 6, p. 72
- Valenciennes (1846), Atlas Voy. Venus, pl..5, f. 3. (non Lamarck, 1816).
- Casey (1904) Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 151.
- Otuka (1959) Venus, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 246.
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.