''Abyssotrophon soyoae'' is a
species of
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 ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the
Okinawa Trough.
and also off southeast
Taiwan.
Ecology
It was recorded 1973 m deep.
References
* Okutani T. (1959). A new muricid gastropod, Trophonopsis soyoae sp. nov. from a deep water in Kumano-Nado, Japan. Venus. 20(4): 350-352. page(s): 350, figs. 1-3
* Egorov R.V. (1993). Trophoninae (Muricidae) of Russian and adjacent waters. Ruthenica. suppl. 1: 1-48.
External links
Houart, R. & Buge, B. (2022). Noteworthy and new Muricidae (Gastropoda) collected in the East and South China Seas and off Taiwan. Venus. 80(1-2): 1-23
soyoae
Gastropods described in 1959
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