Minolia watanabei

Minolia watanabei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Minolia
Species:
M. watanabei
Binomial name
Minolia watanabei
(Shikama, 1962)
Synonyms

Hazuregyra watanabei Shikama, 1962 (superseded combination)

Minolia watanabei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.[1][2][3]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 6 mm.

Distribution

This marine shell occurs off Japan.

References

  1. ↑ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Minolia watanabei (Shikama, 1962)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2026-02-18.
  2. ↑ Hasegawa K. & Okutani T. (2011) A review of bathyal shell-bearing gastropods in Sagami Bay. Memoirs of the National Sciences Museum, Tokyo 47: 97-144. (15 April 2011)
  3. ↑ Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Osaka: Elle Scientific Publications. 749 pp.