''Oenopota komakahida'' is a species of

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Description

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to

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found at depths between 200 m and 350 m; and has also fossil records.

References

* Otuka, Y., 1949: ''Fossil Mollusca and rocks of the Kiyosumi group exposed at Minato-machi, Chiba Prefecture, and its environs'' (1st paper). Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography, vol. 21, nos. 1–4, pp. 295–309, pl. 13.

External links

Kazutaka Amano and Mikiko Watanabe , ''Taxonomy and distribution of Plio-Pleistocene Buccinum'' ; Paleontological Research, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 215–226, September 28,2001
komakahida Gastropods described in 1949 {{Mangeliidae-stub