''Scabrotrophon densilamellatus'' 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
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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in the
family
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Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neog ...
, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell grows to a length of 30 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along the
Kurile Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the ...
,
Russia
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, in the
Okhotsk Sea
The Sea of Okhotsk; Historically also known as , or as ; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, ...
.
References
* Golikov, A.N. & Gulbin, V.V. (1977). Prosobranchiate gastropods (Gastropoda, Prosobranchiata) of the shelf of Kurile Islands. II. Ordo Hamiglossa — Homoestropha
�рюхоногие переднежаберные моллюски (Gastropoda, Prosobranchiata) шельфа Курильских островов. II. Отряды Hamiglossa — Homoestropha Фауна прибрежных зон Курильских островов
auna of coastal zones of Kurile Islands Nauka. Moscow 172-268
n Russian
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History
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* Kantor 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 links
*
Houart, R.; Vermeij, G.; Wiedrick, S. (2019). New taxa and new synonymy in Muricidae (Neogastropoda: Pagodulinae, Trophoninae, Ocenebrinae) from the Northeast Pacific. Zoosymposia. 13(1): 184-241
densilamellatus
Gastropods described in 1977
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