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| Anatoma japonica | |
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| Shell of Anatoma japonica (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea |
| Family: | Anatomidae |
| Genus: | Anatoma |
| Species: | A. japonica |
| Binomial name | |
| Anatoma japonica (A. Adams, 1862) | |
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Anatoma japonica is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 1 mm and 2.5 mm. It has a trochiform shell. The spire contains 3½ rather convex whorls. They are finely decussated by elevated longitudinal striae and close striae. The longitudinal striae are flexuous at the base. The aperture is subcircular. The outer lip is dilated and reflexed in the middle.[2][3]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs in deep water off the Philippines, Japan, and Southeast Africa.
References
[edit]- ↑ Anatoma japonica (A. Adams, 1862). 22 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Adams, Arthur (1862), On some new species of Scissurellidae from the seas of China and Japan; Annals and Magazine of Natural History vol. 10 p. 347
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII, p. 59 (described as Anatomus japonicus)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Geiger D.L. (2006). Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128:1-33
- Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.
External links
[edit]- Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). "Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (12): 300–301.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Schepman, M.M. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa with an appendix by Prof. R. Bergh. Siboga-Expeditie. 49a. p. 83.
- Herbert, D.G. (2015). "An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)". Zootaxa. 49 (1): 1–98.
- Encyclopedia of Life
- World Register of Marine Species
- "Anatoma japonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.