Nepotilla Nezi
''Taranis nezi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Nepotilla nezi (Okutani, 1964). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580266 on 2016-02-17 Description Distribution This marine species occurs off Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... References * Hasegawa K. & Okutani T. (2011) ''A review of bathyal shell-bearing gastropods in Sagami Bay''. Memoirs of the National Sciences Museum, Tokyo 47: 97-144. nezi Gastropods described in 1964 {{Raphitomidae-stub ...
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Sea Snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell. Definition Determining whether some gastropods should be called sea snails is not always easy. Some species that live in brackish water (such as certain neritids) can be listed as either freshwater snails or marine snails, and some species that live at or just above the high tide level (for example species in the genus '' Truncatella'') are sometimes considered to be sea snails and sometimes listed as land snails. Anatomy Sea snails are a very large group of animals and a very diverse one. Most snails that live in salt water respire using a gill or gills; a few species, though, have a lung, are intertidal, and are active only at low tide when they can move around in the air. These air-breathing species includ ...
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