''Archiminolia iridescens'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the
family
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Solariellidae
Solariellidae is a family (biology), family of small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (superfamily), Trochoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Archiminolia iridescens''. Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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Content
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580234 on 2012-12-03[Hasegawa K. & Okutani T. (2011) A review of bathyal shell-bearing gastropods in Sagami Bay. Memoirs of the National Sciences Museum, Tokyo 47: 97-144. (15 April 2011)]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
.
References
* Habe, T (1964), ''Shells of the Western Pacific in Colour, Vol.I''I, 233pp., 66pls., Hoikusha Publishing Company,
* Hasegawa K. & Okutani T. (2011) ''A review of bathyal shell-bearing gastropods in Sagami Bay.'' Memoirs of the National Sciences Museum, Tokyo 47: 97-144.
External links
World Register of Marine Species
iridescens
Gastropods described in 1961
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