Antiplanes obesus

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| authority = Ozaki, 1958

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  • Antiplanes kawamurai (Habe, 1958)
  • Rectiplanes kawamurai Habe, 1958

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Antiplanes obesus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.{{WRMS species|580269 |Antiplanes obesus Ozaki, 1958 ||11 February 2012}}

Description

The length of the shell is up to 45 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan and the Kurile Islands, Russia.

References

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  • Habe, T. (1958b) Description of three new species of the genus Rectiplanes from Japan. Venus, 20, 181–186
  • 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.
  • 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]