Saotomea delicata
| Saotomea delicata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Subfamily: | Fulgorariinae |
| Genus: | Saotomea |
| Subgenus: | Saotomea |
| Species: | S. delicata |
| Binomial name | |
| Saotomea delicata (Fulton, 1940) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Saotomea delicata, common name : the delicate volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 25 mm and 55 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the seas along Japan.
References
- 1 2 Saotomea delicata (Fulton, 1940). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 November 2010.
- Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl
- Bail P. & Chino M. (2010) The family Volutidae. The endemic Far East Asian subfamily Fulgorariinae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954: A revision of the Recent species. A conchological iconography (G.T. Poppe & K. Groh, eds). Hackenheim: Conchbooks
External links
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.