Nihonia circumstricta | |
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Original image of a shell of Nihonia circumstricta | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Cochlespiridae |
Genus: | Nihonia |
Species: | N. circumstricta
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Binomial name | |
Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Nihonia circumstricta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae. [1] [2]
The length of the shell varies between 50 mm and 65 mm, its diameter between 15.5 mm and 19 mm. The shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. It contains 9 weakly angulate whorls
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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania at depths between 300–400 m.