Amaea sericogazea is a species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.[1]

Amaea sericogazea
Shell of Amaea sericogazea (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Epitoniidae
Genus: Amaea
Species:
A. sericogazea
Binomial name
Amaea sericogazea
(Masahito, Kuroda & T. Habe, 1971)
Synonyms[1]
  • Amaea teramachii Kaicher, 1980
  • Scalina sericogazea Masahito, Kuroda & T. Habe, 1971 superseded combination

Description

edit

The length of the shell attains 30 mm.

Distribution

edit

This marine species was found in Sagami Bay, Japan; it also occurs in the East China Sea and off the Philippines

References

edit
  • Kuroda, T., Habe, T. & Oyama, K. (1971). The sea shells of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Tokyo: Maruzen Co. pp. 1–741.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. pp. 1–1267.