Phymorhynchus buccinoides

Phymorhynchus buccinoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Phymorhynchus
Species: P. buccinoides
Binomial name
Phymorhynchus buccinoides
Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993[1]

Phymorhynchus buccinoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.[2]

The Japanese name of this species is Tsubunari-shajiku.[3]

Distribution

The type locality is off Hatsushima, Sagami Bay, 35°00.2' N, 139°13.5' E, Japan in depth 1160 m.[3]

There is not known other locality up to 2005.[3]

It lives in seeps.[3]

References

  1. Okutani T., Fujikura K. & Sasaki T. (1993). "New taxa and new distribution records of deepsea gastropods collected from or near the chemosynthetic communities in the Japanese waters". Bulletin of National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A 19: 123-143. page 140, figs. 44-46.
  2. Phymorhynchus buccinoides Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Sasaki T., Okutani T. & Fujikura K. (2005). "Molluscs from Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps in Japan: A Review of Taxa Recorded in Twenty Recent Years (1984-2004)". Venus 64(3-4): 87-133. PDF.


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