Oenopota elegans

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Species of gastropod

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::summary Species of gastropod ::

| taxon =Oenopota elegans | image = Oenopota elegans 002.jpg | image_caption = Shell of Oenopota elegans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | authority = (Møller, 1842) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

  • Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842 (original description)
  • Lora elegans
  • Lora galgana Dall, W. H., 1919
  • Lora sixta Dall, W. H. in Simpson, C.T., 1919
  • Nodotoma elegans (Møller, H.P.C., 1842)
  • Oenopota galgana W. H. Dall, 1919
  • Oenopota sixta W. H. Dall in C.T. Simpson, 1919
  • Pleurotomoides elegans H.P.C. Møller, 1842 | display_parents = 3

Oenopota elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 18 mm, its diameter 6 mm.

The shell is white, under a yellowish periostracum. It contains six or more obtusely shouldered whorls. The apex is decorticated. The suture is appressed. The axial sculpture consists on the earlier whorls of about 18 protractively oblique rounded ribs, slightly angulate at the shoulder, feeble on the fasciole and crossing the whorls except on the body whorl where they gradually become obsolete. The whole surface is spirally sculptured with fine close-set threads, here and there one a little more prominent than the rest, others near the siphonal canal coarser. The anal sulcus is wide and shallow. The outer lip is arcuate. The inner lip is erased. The siphonal canal is moderately long and slightly recurved.

Distribution

This marine species is circumarctic and also occurs in European waters, the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Maine.

References

  • Møller H. O., 1842: Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae; Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, Kjøbenhavn 4 (1): 76–97
  • Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 139317. ''Oenopota elegans'' (Møller, 1842). 10 August 2011
  2. [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofuni561920unit Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920)] {{PD-notice (described as ''Lora galgana'')

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