Kelletia lischkei
Appearance
Kelletia lischkei Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
Genus: | Kelletia |
Species: | K. lischkei
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Binomial name | |
Kelletia lischkei (Oyama, K., 1951)
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Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.[1]
Description
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Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of buccinid whelk.[2][3]
Distribution
[edit]The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea[4] and eastern Japan.[2] Fossils of K. lischkei occur in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan,[5] and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
- ^ a b Hayashi, Seiji (2005). "The molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae (Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda) as inferred from the complete mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene sequences of selected representatives". Molluscan Research. 25: 85–98.
- ^ Vaux, Felix; Hills, Simon F.K.; Marshall, Bruce A.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2017). "A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114 (2017): 367–381. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.018. PMID 28669812.
- ^ Hwang, H.; Kang, J.; Cho, I.; Kang, D.; Paek, W.K.; Lee, S.H. (2014). "Benthic invertebrate fauna in the islets of Namuseom and Bukhyeongjeseom off Busan". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 7: e206–e212. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2014.03.009.
- ^ Ogasawara, K. 2002. Cenozoic Gastropoda. In: Ikeya, N., Hirano, H., Ogasawara, K. eds. The database of Japanese fossil type specimens described during the 20th Century (Part 2). Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Paper 40. University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
- ^ Ozaki, H (1954). "On the palaeontology of the basal conglommerate of Pliocene Tyoshi City, Kanto Region". Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. 34: 9–21.
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