Kelletia lischkei Temporal range: Middle
Pleistocene to Recent,
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Two live Kelletia lischkei snails | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
Genus: | Kelletia |
Species: | K. lischkei
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Binomial name | |
Kelletia lischkei (Oyama, K., 1951)
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Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae. [1]
Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of buccinid whelk. [2] [3]
The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea [4] and eastern Japan. [2] Fossils of K. lischkei occur in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan, [5] and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis. [6]
Kelletia lischkei Temporal range: Middle
Pleistocene to Recent,
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Two live Kelletia lischkei snails | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Austrosiphonidae |
Genus: | Kelletia |
Species: | K. lischkei
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Binomial name | |
Kelletia lischkei (Oyama, K., 1951)
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Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae. [1]
Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of buccinid whelk. [2] [3]
The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea [4] and eastern Japan. [2] Fossils of K. lischkei occur in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan, [5] and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis. [6]