''Neohaustator fortilirata'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod 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 es ...
in the
family
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Turritellidae
Turritellidae, common name the "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
These snails are filter feeders. This method of feeding is somewhat ...
.
Description
Distribution
References
* Sowerby, G. B. III, 1914, ''Descriptions of fifteen new Japanese Marine Molluscs''. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, 14, July, 1914 page(s): 36
* Hasegawa K. (2009) U''pper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan''. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.
Turritellidae
Gastropods described in 1914
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