Oenopota tenuicostata

Oenopota tenuicostata
Two views of a shell of Oenopota tenuicostata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. tenuicostata
Binomial name
Oenopota tenuicostata (Sars G.O., 1878)
Synonyms[1]
Bela conoidea Friele, H., 1886 Bela finmarchia Friele, H., 1886 Bela tenuicostata Sars G. O., 1878 (original combination) Bela willei Friele, H., 1877 Pleurotoma scalaris Reeve, L.A., 1845

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

Description

The length of the shell varies from 5 mm to 13 mm.

This species resembles Curtitoma decussata (Couthouy, 1839) but is smaller and has more numerous ribs.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Greenland and Novaya Zemlya at depths between 200 m and 2702 m.

References

1. Oenopota tenuicostata (Sars G.O., 1878). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 August 2011.
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Sars, G.O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1–34 & I-XVIII
• 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
• Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• "Oenopota tenuicostata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.