Oenopota morchi

Oenopota morchi
Original image with two views of a shell of Oenopota morchi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. morchi
Binomial name
Oenopota morchi (W. Leche, 1878)
Synonyms
Lora mörchi W. Leche, 1878 Pleurotoma violacea var. mörchi W. Leche, 1878

Oenopota morchi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Nova Zembla, in the Arctic Ocean, to Bering Strait and in the Prince William Sound.

References

1. Oenopota admetoides (Okutani, 1968). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.

• Leche W. (1878). Öfversigt öfver de af svenska expeditionerna till Novaja Semlja och Jenissej 1875 och 1876 insamlade. Hafsmollusker. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, N.F., 16(2): p. 57, pi. 1, fig. 18

External links

• Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.