''Enixotrophon ziczac'' 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 ...
mollusk in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Enixotrophon ziczac (Tiba, 1981). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869804 on 2021-11-26]
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
* Tiba R. (1981) Descriptions of two new species of the genus Trophonopsis from the southern Japan (Gastropoda Muricacea). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 1(7): 105-106, pl. 34.
* Marshall B.A. & Houart R. (2011) ''The genus Pagodula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Australia, the New Zealand region and the Tasman Sea''. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1): 89–114.
Gastropods described in 1981
Enixotrophon
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