Obesotoma hokkaidoensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Obesotoma hokkaidoensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Obesotoma |
| Species: | O. hokkaidoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Obesotoma hokkaidoensis (Bartsch, 1941)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 6.5 mm and 11.5 m.
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Distribution
editThis is a rare marine species occurring in low-boreal waters off Japan at depths between 167 m and 1600 m.
References
edit- ^ a b Obesotoma hokkaidoensis (Bartsch, 1941). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
- Bartsch, P. (1941) The nomenclatorial status of certain northern turritid mollusks. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 54: 1–14.
- Hasegawa, K., Okutani, T. and E. Tsuchida (2000) Family Turridae. In: Okutani, T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 619–667 (in Japanese).
External links
edit- Gulbin, Vladimir V. "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda." The Korean Journal of Malacology 25.1 (2009): 51–70
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- "Curtitoma hokkaidoensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Biolib.cz: Obesotoma hokkaidoensis