''Oenopota sagamiana'' 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 was found off

Hatsushima is an island in Sagami Bay, Japan. Administratively, it is part of the city of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, from which it can be reached by ferry. The island is approximately 10 kilometers from the ferry landing in downtown Atami. The island is i ...

, Sagami Bay, Japan.

References

* Okutani, T. & Fujikura, K. 1992. ''A new turrid gastropod associated with metachromatic seabed near the Calyptogena-community in Sagami Bay.'' Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology) 51: 1–7.
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

* sagamiana Gastropods described in 1992 {{Oenopota-stub