Nipponaphera cyphoma

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Nipponaphera cyphoma
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Shell of Nipponaphera cyphoma (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Nipponaphera
Species:
N. cyphoma
Binomial name
Nipponaphera cyphoma
Bouchet & Petit, 2002 [1]

Nipponaphera cyphoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [2]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 12.9 mm.

Its shell is a rounded spiral shape with lengthwise brown barring alternating with white ridges. The lower brown gradients to a black-grey with tones of brown as the shell tapers to a point.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia. It is a deep-water Cancellariidae from the southwestern Pacific Ocean. [3]

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References

  1. Bouchet & Petit. 2002. Nautilus 116 (3): 95–104. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  2. Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2010.
  3. "Molluscabase - Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002". molluscabase.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.