''Oenopota ogasawarana'' is a species of

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, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs on the Kaikata Seamount, west off

Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

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 ...

. at depths between 440 m and 450 m

References

* Okutani, T., Fujikura, K. & Sasaki, T. 1993b. New taxa and new distribution records of deepsea gastropods collected from or near the chemosynthetic communities in the Japanese waters. Bulletin of National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A 19: 123–143
Sasaki, Takenori, Takashi Okutani, and Katsunori Fujikura. "Molluscs from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in Japan: a review of taxa recorded in twenty recent years (1984–2004)." Venus 64.3–4 (2005): 87–133

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
ogasawarana Gastropods described in 1993 {{Oenopota-stub