''Kanekotrochus infuscatusis'', common name the dusky jewel top shell, 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 Trochidae, the top snails

Description

The size of the adult shell of this species varies between 7 mm and 16 mm.

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 ...

and the Philippines.

References

* Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). ''Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan.'' Osaka. : Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp. * Dekker H. (2006). ''Description of a new species of Kanekotrochus (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from Vietnam.'' Miscellanea Malacologia, 2(1): 1–4

External links

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infuscatus Gastropods described in 1861 {{Trochidae-stub