Nipponaphera cyphoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]

Nipponaphera cyphoma
Shell of Nipponaphera cyphoma (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Nipponaphera
Species:
N. cyphoma
Binomial name
Nipponaphera cyphoma
Bouchet & Petit, 2002[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 12.9 mm.

Its shell is a rounded spiral shape with lengthwise brown barring alternating with white ridges. The lower brown gradients to a black-grey with tones of brown as the shell tapers to a point.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off New Caledonia. It is a deep-water Cancellariidae from the southwestern Pacific Ocean. [3]

References

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  1. ^ Bouchet & Petit. 2002. Nautilus 116 (3): 95–104. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  2. ^ Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Molluscabase - Nipponaphera cyphoma Bouchet & Petit, 2002". molluscabase.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  • Bouchet P. & Petit R.E. (2008). New species and new records of southwest Pacific Cancellariidae. The Nautilus 122(1): 1-18.