Anatoma japonica

Anatoma japonica
Shell of Anatoma japonica (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Superfamily:	Scissurelloidea
Family:	Anatomidae
Genus:	Anatoma
Species:	A. japonica
Binomial name
Anatoma japonica (A. Adams, 1862)
Synonyms
Anatoma aetheria(Melvill & Standen, 1903) Anatoma exquisita(Schepman, 1908) Anatoma jansenaeGeiger, 2006 Anatomus japonicusA. Adams, 1862 (original combination) Scissurella aetheriaMelvill & Standen, 1903 Scissurella exquisitaSchepman, 1908

Anatoma japonica is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 1 mm and 2.5 mm. It has a trochiform shell. The spire contains 3½ rather convex whorls. They are finely decussated by elevated longitudinal striae and close striae. The longitudinal striae are flexuous at the base. The aperture is subcircular. The outer lip is dilated and reflexed in the middle. ^{[2] [3]}

Distribution

This marine species occurs in deep water off the Philippines, Japan, and Southeast Africa.

References

1. Anatoma japonica (A. Adams, 1862) . 22 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Adams, Arthur (1862), On some new species of Scissurellidae from the seas of China and Japan; Annals and Magazine of Natural History vol. 10 p. 347
3. G.W. Tryon (1890), Manual of Conchology vol. XII, p. 59 (described as Anatomus japonicus) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Geiger D.L. (2006). Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128:1-33
• Geiger D.L. (2012) Monograph of the little slit shells. Volume 1. Introduction, Scissurellidae. pp. 1-728. Volume 2. Anatomidae, Larocheidae, Depressizonidae, Sutilizonidae, Temnocinclidae. pp. 729–1291. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs Number 7.

External links

• Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). "Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend, of the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (12): 300–301.
• Schepman, M.M. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part I. Rhipidoglossa and Docoglossa with an appendix by Prof. R. Bergh. Siboga-Expeditie. 49a. p. 83.
• Herbert, D.G. (2015). "An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)". Zootaxa. 49 (1): 1–98.
• Encyclopedia of Life
• World Register of Marine Species
• "Anatoma japonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.