Oenopota excurvata

Oenopota excurvata
Shell of Oenopota excurvata (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. excurvata
Binomial name
Oenopota excurvata (Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms [1]
Bela excurvataCarpenter, 1864 (original description) Lora excurvata(Carpenter, 1864)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm. The characteristics are similar to Curtitoma trevelliana (Turton, 1834) except for the white color, being shorter and the margins of the whorls being more curved.

Distribution

This species occurs from the Bering Sea to the Salish Sea, North America

References

1. Oenopota excurvata (Carpenter, 1864) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 10 August 2011.

• Philip Carpenter, Diagnoses Specierum et Varietatum novarum Moluscorum prope sinum Pugetianum; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia vol. 17 (1865)
• Carpenter P. (1872) The Mollusks of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution, Washington This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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 excurvata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.