''Nipponaphera'' is a
genus
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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 ...
s, 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
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s in the
family
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Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
Di ...
, the nutmeg snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Nipponaphera'' include:
* ''
Nipponaphera agastor''
Bouchet & Petit, 2008
* ''
Nipponaphera argo''
Bouchet & Petit, 2008
* ''
Nipponaphera cyphoma''
Bouchet & Petit, 2002
* ''
Nipponaphera goniata''
Bouchet & Petit, 2002
* ''
Nipponaphera habei''
Petit, 1972
* ''
Nipponaphera iwaotakii''
Habe, 1961
* ''
Nipponaphera kastoroae
''Nipponaphera kastoroae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, i ...
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(Verhecken, 1997)
* ''
Nipponaphera nodosivaricosa
''Nipponaphera nodosivaricosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other ...
''
(Petuch, 1979)
* ''
Nipponaphera pardalis''
Bouchet & Petit, 2002
* ''
Nipponaphera paucicostata''
(G.B. Sowerby III, 1894)
* ''
Nipponaphera quasilla''
(Petit, 1987)
* ''
Nipponaphera semipellucida
''Nipponaphera semipellucida'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other r ...
''
(A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
* ''
Nipponaphera suduirauti
''Nipponaphera suduirauti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other rela ...
''
(Verhecken, 1999)
* ''
Nipponaphera teramachii''
(Habe, 1961a)
* ''
Nipponaphera tuba''
Bouchet & Petit, 2008
* ''
Nipponaphera wallacei''
Petit & Harasewych, 2000
References
* Habe T. (1961). Coloured illustrations of the shells of Japan (II). Hoikusha, Osaka. xii + 183 + 42 pp., 66 pls.
* Hemmen J. (2007). ''Recent Cancellariidae'' Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
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