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Ammonicera japonica

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Species of gastropod

Ammonicera japonica
Shell of Ammonicera japonica (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Omalogyridae
Genus: Ammonicera
Species: A. japonica
Binomial name
Ammonicera japonica
Habe, 1972

Ammonicera japonica is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Omalogyridae.

Description

The major diameter of the shell is O.68 mm and minor diameter O.5 mm.

(Original description) The thin, yet solidly constructed shell is extremely small, measuring less than 1 mm in diameter when fully grown. Fresh specimens are dark brown, while dead shells are ashy white. The shell features 16 regularly arranged white radial streaks along the periphery and is planorboid and biconcave, resembling the freshwater pulmonate snail Gyraulus.

The shell contains 3 to 3½ whorls. These are marked by deep sutures and constricted by regularly spaced annulations, with approximately 16 annulations present on the body whorl. The peripheral area is smooth, giving the shell an ammonite-like appearance. The aperture is circular, with a continuous peristome.

It forms a homogeneous group with Ammonicera nodicarinata and Ammonicera vangoethemi, based don the presence of one strong groove on the protoconch and at least one axial sculpture on the teleoconch.

Distribution

This species occurs off Japan and Korea; also in the Indian Ocean off Réunion; in the Pacific off Hawaii; off Papua New Guinea and off the United Arab Emirates.

References

  1. Ammonicera japonica Habe, 1972. 21 January 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Habe, T. (1972). "The Japan's smallest gastropod, Ammonicera japonica, sp. nov". Venus. 31 (3): 15–116. Retrieved 21 January 2025. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  3. ^ Sartori, A.F. & Bieler, R. (2014). "Three new species of Ammonicera from the Eastern Pacific coast of North America, with redescriptions and comments on other species of Omalogyridae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia)". Zootaxa. 38 (72 (1)): 8–10. Retrieved 21 January 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Raines, B.K. (2007). "New molluscan records from Easter Island, with the description of a new Ethminolia". Visaya. 2 (1): 70–88.


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