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Plicifusus minor

Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Plicifusus minor is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

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This species was first described by William Healey Dall in 1925. Volutopsius minor was the original taxonomic designation,[2] but subsequent taxonomic revisions have reclassified it under the genus Plicifusus.

Description

The shell of Plicifusus minor can reach a length of up to 57 millimeters. Detailed morphological characteristics beyond shell length are not yet extensively documented in the available literature.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hokkaido and Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk.[3]

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