Kelletia lischkei is a species of large sea snail, or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.
Description
Kelletia lischkei is a medium-to-large species of buccinid whelk.
Distribution The species is endemic to the Sea of Japan, and is found in coastal waters off of South Korea and eastern Japan. Fossils of K. lischkei occur in the Middle Pleistocene fossil record of Japan,Ogasawara, K. 2002. Cenozoic Gastropoda. In: Ikeya, N., Hirano, H., Ogasawara, K. eds. The database of Japanese fossil type specimens described during the 20th Century (Part 2). Palaeontological Society of Japan, Special Paper 40. University of Tokyo, Tokyo. and the species bears a resemblance to the extinct fossil species Kelletia brevis.
References
External links World Register of Marine Species: Kelletia lischkei (Kuroda, 1938)