Neptunea polycostata

Neptunea polycostata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species:
N. polycostata
Binomial name
Neptunea polycostata
Scarlato in Galkin et Scarlato, 1955
Synonyms
  • Neptunea polycostata polycostata Galkin & Scarlato, 1955
  • Neptunea satura var. polycostata Galkin & Scarlato, 1955 (basionym)

Neptunea polycostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

There is one subspecies: Neptunea polycostata aino Fraussen & Terryn, 2007 (synonym: Neptunea polycostata var. sculpturata Golikov, 1963)

Description

Distribution

Cold northern seas, Sakhalin Island, and Hokkaido, Japan.

References

  1. ^ Neptunea polycostata Scarlato in Galkin et Scarlato, 1955. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.


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