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Neptunea kuroshio Oyama, 1958

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Buccinidae - Whelks »  genus Neptunea

Scientific synonyms

Neptunea minor Hirasé, 1908

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Neptunea kuroshio

Author: Jan Delsing

Neptunea kuroshio

Author: Shellauction

Neptunea kuroshio

Author: Hirase, Y.

Taxon in country check-lists*

Asia: Japan, Taiwan

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Description

Neptunea minor: Shell yellowish white, closely resembles N. frater but much smaller with shorter spire, shallower suture, and shorter anterior canal. Whorls 6, apex wanted leaving 1,5 smooth protoconch ; with weaker spiral ribs and fewer striae, counting 5 or 6 between the ribs in the middle of the last whorl. The aperture with white thick callous within, the upper part of the outer lip thickened and slightly reflexed, the columellar lip with a thin callous and a subprotuberance near the posterior canal.
Length 70, diam. 43.5 mm., Length of aperture 41 mm.
Sagami (?) ; type in my collection.
Hirase, Y. (1908). On Japanese marine Mollusca 2, with the descriptions of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Neptunea kuroshio Oyama, 1958]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Neptunea minor Hirase, 1908]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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