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Oenopota excurvata P. P. Carpenter, 1865

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

Description

Shell like B. treveyliana, but white, stouter, with margins of the spire strongly curved out; with nuclear? .... (whorls eroded;) then 4 normal subplanate almost regularly tabulate near the sutures, with about 18 obtuse radial costae, obsolete in the middle of the whorl and near the suture, in the rear strongly arcuate backward; with impressed somewhat distant spiral furrows surpassing the costae, on the spire about 5 vanishing in the rear, in front more frequent; with aperture more extended oval, in front very briefly canaliculate, in the rear deeply sinuate; outer lip acute, in the middle strongly excurvate; columella excavate in the region of the inner lip.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.

Distribution

Type locality, Puget Sound.
RANGE. Bristol Bay, Bering Sea, to Puget Sound.
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 excurvata (Carpenter, 1864)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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