Oenopota levidensis

Oenopota levidensis
Shell of Oenopota levidensis (lectotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. levidensis
Binomial name
Oenopota levidensis (Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms [1]
Mangelia levidensisCarpenter, 1864 Mangilia (Clathromangilia) levidensisCarpenter, 1864

Oenopota levidensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. It was first formally described and named Oenopota levidensisin 1864 by P.P. Carpenter. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

The length of the shell attains 17 mm. Carpenter's types from Neeah Bay and Puget Sound were badly worn, imperfect specimens, hardly identifiable. The color of the fresh shell is dark brown, and the sculpture on the body whorl in older specimens is often more or less obsolete. ^[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Salish Sea, Northwest America. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

References

1. Oenopota levidensis (Carpenter, 1864) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 10 August 2011.
2. "MolluscaBase - Oenopota levidensis (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
3. "Occurrence Detail 4035992307". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
4. 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 .
5. "Gastropods - Borsoniidae, Mangeliidae, Pseudomelatomidae". www.bily.com. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
6. "Herbert N. Lowe Collection".
7. "Occurrence Detail 4035992307". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 December 2025.

• 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). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• 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 .