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Oenopota healyi W. H. Dall, 1919

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

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Description

Shell white, more or less discolored by ferruginous red (probably ad-ventitious) with five and a half rounded whorls, a subglobular smooth nucleus forming one and a half of these; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl 6 or 7, on the last whorl about 14) coarse rather irregu¬lar cords with narrower channeled interspaces, the cords more or less nodulated by incremental lines and on the spire by obscure ribbing; suture distinct, aperture narrow, simple; pillar white, erased, canal short, straight-Height of shell, 15; of last whorl, 10; diameter, 7 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 223908. Type locality, Arctic Ocean north of Bering Sea. RANGE. Known only from type locality.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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 healyi Dall, 1919]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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