Oenopota excurvata
| Oenopota excurvata | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Oenopota excurvata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Oenopota |
| Species: | O. excurvata |
| Binomial name | |
| Oenopota excurvata (Carpenter, 1864) | |
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Oenopota excurvata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diamter 3.8 mm. The characteristics are similar to Curtitoma trevelliana'' (Turton, 1834) except the white color, being shorter and the margins of the whorls being more curved.
Distribution
This species occurs from the Bering Sea to the Salish Sea, Northwest America
References
- 1 2 Oenopota excurvata (Carpenter, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
- Philip Carpenter, Diagnoses Specierum et Varietatum novarum Moluscorum prope sinum Pugetianum; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia vol. 17 (1865)
- Carpenter P. (1872) The Mollusks of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Gastropods.com: Oenopota excurvata
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