Makiyamaia

Makiyamaia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]

Makiyamaia
A shell of Makiyamaia coreanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Genus: Makiyamaia
Kuroda, 1961
Type species
Pleurotoma coreanica
Adams & Reeve, 1850

Distribution

This marine species is known as fossils from the Miocene to the Recent of Japan, the Pliocene of Okinawa. In Recent times it is found in the South China Sea, Korea and the Philippines and off South Africa.

Species

Species within the genus Makiyamaia include:

References

  • F. S. MacNeil. 1961. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339:1-148, p. 106 [Dated 1960, distributed 17 March 1961]. MacNeil described Makiyamaia but attributed the name to Tokubei Kuroda.


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