Cecina manchurica

Cecina manchurica
A live individual of Cecina manchurica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Genus:	Cecina
Species:	C. manchurica
Binomial name
Cecina manchurica A. Adams, 1861 [1]

Cecina manchurica is a species of sea snail that has a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. ^[2]

The specific name manchurica refers to Manchuria, the historical region where its type locality was situated.

Distribution

This is an Endangered species (type I, CR+EN) in Japan. ^[3]

The type locality is "Olga and Vladimir Bays, Manchuria, under damp logs near the sea", ^[1] today in Primorsky Krai, Russia.

Ecology

This species lives in very shallow water in littoral habitats, including decaying seaweed stranded on the beach. ^[2]

References

1. Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
2. Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-11-118 .
3. (in Japanese) "クビキレガイモドキ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine . 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.

Further reading

• (in Japanese) 小菅 貞男 Kosuge S. (1967). "Cecina manchuricaの類縁関係 [Generic Relationships of Cecina manchurica A. Adams]". Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology (3): 1-2. CiNii.
• Suzuki T., Yamashita H., Miyagi T. & Tatara Y. (2009). "Cecina manchurica A. Adams, 1861 (Caenogastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan". Molluscan Divers 1: 5-11.