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Nipponaphera tuba

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Nipponaphera tuba
Shell of Nipponaphera tuba (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. tuba
Binomial name
Nipponaphera tuba
Bouchet & Petit, 2008[1]

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

Description

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The length of the shell attains 20.7 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Vanuatu.

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