Nihonia circumstricta
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| Nihonia circumstricta | |
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| Original image of a shell of Nihonia circumstricta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Cochlespiridae |
| Genus: | Nihonia |
| Species: | N. circumstricta |
| Binomial name | |
| Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901) | |
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Nihonia circumstricta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.[1][2]
The length of the shell varies between 50 mm and 65 mm, its diameter between 15.5 mm and 19 mm. The shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. It contains 9 weakly angulate whorls.