Plicifusus minor

Plicifusus minor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Plicifusus
Species:	P. minor
Binomial name
Plicifusus minor (Dall, 1925)
Synonyms
Colus minor (Dall, 1925) Volutopsius minor Dall, 1925 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 57 mm.

Distribution

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

References

• Okutani T. (2017). Family Buccinidae. Pp. 917-939, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp.

External links

• Dall, W. H. (1925). Illustrations of unfigured types of shells in the collections of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 66, art. 17, no. 2554: 1-41, pls. 1-36.

• Data related to Plicifusus minor at Wikispecies

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