Obesotoma gigantea

Obesotoma gigantea
Shell of Obesotoma gigantea (museum specimen from Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Obesotoma
Species:	O. gigantea
Binomial name
Obesotoma gigantea (Mörch, 1869)
Synonyms [1]
Bela gigantea(Mörch, 1869) Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea var. giganteaMörch, 1869 Pleurotoma giganteaMoerch, 1869 (original combination)

Obesotoma gigantea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. ^[1]

Description

The length varies between 12 mm and 25 mm. It differs from Obesotoma gigas (Verkrüzen, 1875) in a more produced, curved siphonal canal. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is found from Eastern Greenland to Severnaya Zemlya, Russia

References

1. Obesotoma gigantea (Mörch, 1869) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 10 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 .

• Morch, O.A.L. (1869) Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg, recueilles par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette la Recherche en juin 1838. Memoires de la Societe Malacologique de Belgique, 4: 7–32
• Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.