Oenopota elegans

Oenopota elegans
Shell of Oenopota elegans (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. elegans
Binomial name
Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842)
Synonyms [1]
Defrancia elegansMøller, 1842 (original description) Lora elegans Lora galgana Dall, W. H., 1919 Lora sixtaDall, W. H. in Simpson, C.T., 1919 Nodotoma elegans(Møller, H.P.C., 1842) Oenopota galganaW. H. Dall, 1919 Oenopota sixtaW. H. Dall in C.T. Simpson, 1919 Pleurotomoides elegansH.P.C. Møller, 1842

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

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. ^[2]

Distribution

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

References

1. Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 10 August 2011.
2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . (described as Lora galgana)

• 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

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.
• "Nodotoma elegans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.