Mikadotrochus beyrichii | |
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Drawing with an apertural view of Mikadotrochus beyrichii | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Pleurotomariida |
Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
Genus: | Mikadotrochus |
Species: | M. beyrichii
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Binomial name | |
Mikadotrochus beyrichii (
Hilgendorf, 1877)
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Mikadotrochus beyrichii, common name Beyrich's slit shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae. [2]
It was discovered by Franz Martin Hilgendorf in an ancient Japanese collection.
The size of the shell varies between 50 mm and 100 mm. The shell has a trochiform shape. It is as high as broad. It has a flat base. It shows moderately numerous spiral lines. It is pale yellow, beautifully flamed with 11 red whorls that are regularly increasing. The penultimate whorl has 8 lirae above, 2 in and 2 under the slit fasciole. These lirae are beset with weak nodules, about 3 times as long (in the direction of the spiral) as high or broad. The body whorl has a blunt angle at its base. This base contains 20 concentric lirae, and in the middle a deep pit or "false umbilicus". On the outside it is white, on the inside it is pearly. The thick, pearly columellar margin is S-shaped. [3]
M. beyrichii is endemic to the coastal waters of Japan. [4] and China