Mikadotrochus hirasei

Mikadotrochus hirasei
Five views of a shell of Mikadotrochus hirasei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Pleurotomariida
Family: Pleurotomariidae
Genus: Mikadotrochus
Species:
M. hirasei
Binomial name
Mikadotrochus hirasei
(Pilsbry, 1903)
Synonyms
  • Mikadotrochus hirasei yamamotoi Yamamoto, 1993
  • Perotrochus hirasei (Pilsbry, 1903)
  • Pleurotomaria hirasei Pilsbry, 1903
Shell of Mikadotrochus hirasei (Pilsbry, 1903), measuring 55.7 mm height by 68.6 mm width, trawled at 300 ft. in Japan.

Mikadotrochus hirasei, common name the emperor's slit shell, is a species of large deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurotomariidae, the slit snails.[1]