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Kanekotrochus boninensis

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ61695187 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kanekotrochus boninensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

Okutani T. (2001). Six new bathyal and shelf Trochoidean species in Japan. Venus 60(3): 121-127

Dekker H. (2006). Description of a new species of Kanekotrochus (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from Vietnam.

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kanekotrochus, boninensis and species is the immediate research focus.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61695187. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanekotrochus boninensis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.