Cerithiopsida elegansCerithiopsida elegans is a species of sea snails in the family Newtoniellidae. DistributionThis marine species is found off the Kurile Islands. ReferencesKantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.External linksCerithiopsida elegans at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)"Cerithiopsida elegans". The Encyclopedia of Life.Cerithiopsis elegans at Biolib.cz
AnimalAnimals are multicellular, eukaryoticorganisms belonging to the biologicalkingdomAnimalia (). Animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. With few exceptions, animals are able to move. Animals form a clade, meaning that they arose from a single common ancestor. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described, of which around 1.05 million are insects, over 85,000 are molluscs...
CaenogastropodaCaenogastropoda is a taxonomicsubclass of molluscs in the class Gastropoda. It is a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marinegastropodmollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails. The subclass is the most diverse and ecologically successful of the gastropods. Caenogastropoda contains many families of shelled marine molluscs – including the periwinkles, cowries, wentletraps, moon snails, murexes, cone snails and turrids – and constitutes about 60% of all livin...
Aulacofusus brevicaudaAulacofusus brevicauda, common name the thick-ribbed whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropodmollusc in the familyBuccinidae, the true whelks. SubspeciesAulacofusus brevicauda fortilirata(Sowerby III, 1913): synonym of Aulacofusus periscelidus(Dall, 1891) (junior synonym)Aulacofusus brevicauda kurilensisDescriptionThe length of the shell attains 60 mm, its diameter 25 mm. (Originally description in Latin of Neptunea (Sipho) terebralis) The shell is elongated and ovato-fusiform in shape. It possesses ...*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.