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Nihonia

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image = Nihonia circumstricta 001.jpg

| image_caption = Nihonia circumstricta shell

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| taxon = Nihonia

| authority = McNeil, 1961MacNeil (1960) U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 339: 105.

| type_species = † Nihonia shimajiriensis

| type_species_authority = MacNeil, 1960

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Nihonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.{{WRMS species|432516|Nihonia McNeil, 1961||16 April 2010}}{{cite journal |author1=P. Bouchet |author2=Yu. I. Kantor |author3=A. Sysoev |author4=N. Puillandre |year=2011 |title=A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda) |journal=Journal of Molluscan Studies |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=273–308 |doi=10.1093/mollus/eyr017|doi-access=free |url=https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00144/25544/23686.pdf }}

Species

Species within the genus Nihonia include:

  • Nihonia australis (Roissy, 1805){{WRMS species|434494|Nihonia australis (Gmelin, 1791)||16 April 2010}}
  • Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901){{WRMS species|434495|Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901)||16 April 2010}}
  • Nihonia maxima Sysoev, 1997{{WRMS species|434496|Nihonia maxima Sysoev, 1997||16 April 2010}}
  • Nihonia mirabilis (Sowerby III, 1914)

;Extinct species:[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49824083#page/248/mode/1up Indo-Pacific Mollusca; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Delaware Museum of Natural History v. 2 no. 9-10 (1968-1969)]

  • † Nihonia birmanica (Vredenburg, 1921)
  • † Nihonia pervirgo (Yokoyaina, 1928)
  • † Nihonia shimajiriensis MacNeil, 1960. Type species from the Miocene of Okinawa.
  • † Nihonia santosi Sbuto, 1969
  • † Nihonia soyomaruae (Otuka, 1959)
  • † Nihonia sucabumiana (K. Martin, 1895)

References

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  • {{cite journal |last1=MacNeil |first1=F.S. |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0339/report.pdf|title=Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa |journal=U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. |date=1961 |issue=339 |pages=1-148 |access-date=27 June 2024}} {{source-attribution}}

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