Neptunea arthritica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
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| Neptunea arthritica |
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Scientific classification  |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Mollusca |
| Class: |
Gastropoda |
| Subclass: |
Caenogastropoda |
| Order: |
Neogastropoda |
| Family: |
Buccinidae |
| Genus: |
Neptunea |
| Species: |
N. arthritica |
| Binomial name |
Neptunea arthritica
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| Synonyms[1] |
- Barbitonia arthritica (Valenciennes, 1858)
- Barbitonia arthritica arthritica (Valenciennes, 1858)
- Barbitonia arthritica lurida (A. Adams, 1863)
- Fusus arthriticus Valenciennes, 1858 (original combination)
- Neptunea arthritica (Valenciennes, 1858)
- Neptunea arthritica var. asamusi Nomura & Hatai, 1937
- Neptunea arthritica var. matusima Nomura & Hatai, 1937
- Neptunea lurida A. Adams, 1863
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The length of the shell attains 75.4 mm.
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This species occurs off Japan and as an alien species in the Black Sea.
N. arthritica contains toxic tetramethylammonium salts (referred to as "tetramine" in this context) in its tissues, especially the salivary gland, and has the potential to cause human poisoning.[2][3]
M. Asano and M. Itoh (1960). "Salivary poison of a marine gastropod, Neptunea arthritica Bernardi, and the seasonal variation of its toxicity." Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 90 674-688.
U. Anthoni, L. Bohlin, C. Larsen, P. Nielsen, N. H. Nielsen, and C. Christophersen (1989). "Tetramine: Occurrence in marine organisms and pharmacology." Toxicon 27 707-716.
- Shadrin, N.V., Mironov, S.S. & Golicov, A.N., 2002. A finding of the alive Neptunea arthritica (Bernardi, 1857) (Gastropoda, Buccinidae) in the Black Sea. Ekologiya Morya 62:29.
- Valenciennes A. (1858) Note sur une suite intéressante de coquilles rapportées des mers du Japon, et de la Manche de Tartarie, par M. le Dr Barthe. Compte Rendu des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences [Paris 46: 759-762]
- Adams, A. (1864). On the species of Fusidae which inhabit the seas of Japan. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology. 7: 105-108.
- Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245
- Kantor Y.I. & Sysoev A.V. 2002. On the species of molluscs from Russian waters described by Achille Valenciennes in little known publications in 1858. Ruthenica, 12(2): 119–123
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