Muricidae
Nipponotrophon echinus (Dall, 1918)
Description
White, pale brown, orange with translucent. Resembles N. gorgon, but
body whorl slightly inflated and having one spiral code between shoulder and
suture.
Locality
Japan: Off Chosi, Mouth of Tokyo Bay in 250m-300m sandy bottoms, Tosa Bay.
Off Taiwan.
Original articles of scientific name
1918 Boreotrophon echinus Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 54(2234), p.232.
Original of Japanese name
1950 Tokubei Kuroda.
Remarks
Orange color of this shell will fade. My shell was changed in pale brown
ten years later.