Kelletia lischkei

Kelletia lischkei
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent, 0.13–0.00 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Kelletia
Species: K. lischkei
Binomial name
Kelletia lischkei
(Kuroda, T., 1938)

Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Description

Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of Kelletia The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea[1] and eastern Japan.[2] K. lischkei has also been found in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan,[3] and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Hayashi, S. 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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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