Abyssotrophon delicatus

Abyssotrophon delicatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Trophoninae
Genus:	Abyssotrophon
Species:	A. delicatus
Binomial name
*Abyssotrophon delicatus* (Kuroda, 1953)
Synonyms^[1]
Abyssotrophon convexus Egorov, 1994 Abyssotrophon unicus Egorov, 1993 Trophonopsis delicatus Kuroda, 1953

Abyssotrophon delicatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell of an adult shell varies between 6 mm and 12 mm.

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan.

^ ^a ^b Abyssotrophon delicatus (Kuroda, 1953). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399074 on 21 October 2011.

Egorov R.V. 1994. New data on the taxonomy of molluscs of the family Trophoninae (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from the northwestern Pacific. Ruthenica 4(2): 97-101.
Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383.