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Oenopota metschigmensis C. F. Krauss, 1885

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Mangeliidae »  genus Oenopota

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Oenopota metschigmensis

Author: Oldroyd, I.S.

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Description

Shell ovate-fusiform, flesh-colored, with 5-6 whorls flattened to the suture and obtusely angulate-carinate; with oval aperture" half the length of the shell. Surface with flattened spiral zones and longitudinal oblique plications a little more distinct, nodulous on the carina, disappearing toward the base, regularly decussate; that part below the carina covered with less crowded spiral lines, with the longitudinal plications obsolete there.
Source: Oldroyd, I.S. 1927 . The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume IIa

Distribution

Type locality, Metchigme Bay, Bering Strait.
RANGE. Known only from type locality.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Oenopota metschigmensis Krause, 1885]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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