Cecina manchurica

Blanfordia simplex
A live individual of Cecina manchurica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Pomatiopsinae
Genus: Cecina
Species: C. manchurica
Binomial name
Cecina manchurica
A. Adams, 1861[1]

Cecina manchurica is a species of sea snail that has a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[2]

The specific name manchurica refers to Manchuria, the historical region where its type locality was situated.

Distribution

This is an Endangered species (type I, CR+EN) in Japan.[3]

The type locality is "Olga and Vladimir Bays, Manchuria, under damp logs near the sea",[1] today in Primorsky Krai, Russia.

Ecology

This species lives in very shallow water in littoral habitats, including decaying seaweed stranded on the beach.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Adams A. (1861). "On some new Genera and Species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)8: 299-309. 308.
  2. 1 2 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
  3. (Japanese) "クビキレガイモドキ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.

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