Cecina manchurica
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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
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ (in Japanese) "クビキレガイモドキ" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
Further reading
- (in Japanese) 小菅 貞男 Kosuge S. (1967). "Cecina manchuricaの類縁関係 [Generic Relationships of Cecina manchurica A. Adams]". Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology (3): 1-2. CiNii.
- Suzuki T., Yamashita H., Miyagi T. & Tatara Y. (2009). "Cecina manchurica A. Adams, 1861 (Caenogastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan". Molluscan Divers 1: 5-11.
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