''Conotalopia sematensis'' is a very small
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
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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 ...
mollusk or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
in the
family Trochidae, the top snails.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). Conotalopia sematensis (Oyama, 1942). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732128 on 2014-06-24]
Description
The size of the shell varies between 3 mm and 5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan.
References
Oyama (1992), Revision of Yokoyama's type mollusca from the Tertiary and Quaternary of the Kanto Area* Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). ''Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan''. Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.
* Sasaki, T. (2000), In: Okutani, T. (ed.), ''Marine Mollusks in Japan''. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 55-83 (in Japanese).
External links
To World Register of Marine Species''Conotalopia sematensis''{{Taxonbar, from=Q18348768
sematensis
Gastropods described in 1942