Nipponotrophon elegantissimus

Nipponotrophon elegantissimus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Nipponotrophon elegantissimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Trophoninae
Genus:
Nipponotrophon
Species:
N. elegantissimus
Binomial name
Nipponotrophon elegantissimus
(Shikama, 1971)
Synonyms[1]

Trophon elongatus Hu & Lee, 1991
Trophonopsis (Austrotrophon) elegantissima Shikama, 1971

Description

Distribution
gollark: Here's with Neptune.
gollark: This apparently does *not* lead to a moon being produced.
gollark: Jupiter's something like 300 earth masses.
gollark: Scale comparison.
gollark: Wait, Jupiter-sized super earth? I don't think you could have a rocky planet that size.

References
  1. Nipponotrophon elegantissimus (Shikama, 1971). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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