Nihonia

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Nihonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.[2][3]

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Nihonia
Nihonia circumstricta shell
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Cochlespiridae
Genus: Nihonia
McNeil, 1961[1]
Type species
Nihonia shimajiriensis
MacNeil, 1960
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Species

Species within the genus Nihonia include:

Extinct species
[7]
  • 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)

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