Plicifusus minor

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Plicifusus minor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Plicifusus
Species:
P. minor
Binomial name
Plicifusus minor
(Dall, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Colus minor(Dall, 1925)
  • Volutopsius minorDall, 1925 (original combination)

Colus minor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 57 mm

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk. [2]

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Plicifusus minor (Dall, 1925). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037202 on 2022-11-20
  2. Guldin, Vladimir (2009). "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda" (PDF). The Korean Journal of Malacology. 3: 4 via Korea Science.