Nihonia

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Clade Hypsogastropoda Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Clade Caenogastropoda Clade Neogastropoda
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Nihonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlespiridae.

Species

Species within the genus Nihonia include:

Nihonia australis (Roissy, 1805)

Nihonia circumstricta (Martens, 1901)

Nihonia maxima Sysoev, 1997

Nihonia mirabilis (Sowerby III, 1914)

Extinct species

† Nihonia birmanica (Vredenburg, 1921)

† Nihonia pervirgo (Yokoyaina, 1928)

† Nihonia shimajiriensis MacNeil, 1960. Type species from the Miocene of Okinawa.

† Nihonia santosi Sbuto, 1969

† Nihonia soyomaruae (Otuka, 1959)

† Nihonia sucabumiana (K. Martin, 1895)

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