Kinugasagai (English spelling) divested carrier shell

Japanese: キヌガサガイ - きぬがさがい(英語表記)divested carrier shell
Kinugasagai (English spelling) divested carrier shell

A gastropod of the family Caragana, class of the phylum Mollusca. It inhabits sandy and muddy bottoms at depths of 20 to 200 meters in the western Pacific Ocean south of the Boso Peninsula. Its shell is thin and low cone-shaped, reaching a height of 40 mm and a diameter of 100 mm. The shell surface has many obliquely contracted folds, and in the upper spiral layer, small shells and pebbles are attached to the surface, but as it grows, these gradually disappear. In the body layer, the sides hang down half beyond the edge, and there are large wavy indentations around them. The name is thought to be a reference to this appearance, which resembles a cloak hat. The base of the shell is flat and yellowish-white, and there is a clear boundary between the bottom and the part where the side edges extend beyond the edge to form an umbrella shape. The umbilicus is wide. The operculum is pale yellow and translucent, and the nucleus is located on the outside.

[Takashi Okutani]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

軟体動物門腹足綱クマサカガイ科の巻き貝。房総半島以南の西太平洋で、水深20~200メートルの砂泥底にすむ。殻高40ミリメートル、殻径100ミリメートルに達し、殻は薄質で低円錐(えんすい)形。殻表には多くの斜走する縮(ちぢみ)状のひだがあり、上方の螺層(らそう)では表面に小さい貝殻や小石をつけているが、成長するとしだいにつけなくなる。また、体層では側面が周縁を越えて半分垂れ下がり、その周りには大きな波状の出入りがある。その名は、このようすを衣笠(きぬがさ)に例えたものと思われる。殻底は平らで黄白色、側縁が伸び周縁を越えて傘状になった部分と、殻底の間には明確な境界がある。臍孔(へそあな)は広い。蓋(ふた)は薄く黄色の半透明で、核は外側に位置する。

[奥谷喬司]

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