Otitoma lirata

Otitoma lirata
Shell of Otitoma lirata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Otitoma
Species:	O. lirata
Binomial name
Otitoma lirata (Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms [1]
Daphnella lirata(Reeve, 1845) Lophiotoma cerithiformisPowell, A.W.B., 1964 Pleurotoma lirataReeve, 1845 (basionym)

Otitoma lirata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 35 mm, its diameter 12 mm.

The fusiform shell is turreted and keeled all over. The keels are nearly of the same size, and almost equidistant. The keel on the middle of the whorls is slightly the largest. The intermediate superfices are concave. The interstices between the keels are finely striate longitudinally. The sinus is deep. The siphonal canal is short. The color of the shell is white, the keels are spotted with reddish brown. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, United States; also off the Philippines.

References

1. Otitoma lirata (Reeve, 1845) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 10 April 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 . (described as Pleurotoma lirata)

• Wiedrick S.G. (2014). Review of the genera Otitoma Jousseaume, 1880 and Thelecytharella with the description of two new species Gastropoda: Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae) from the southwest Pacific Ocean. The Festivus. 46(3): 40–53

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
• Gastropods.com : Pleurotoma lirata; accessed : 3 December 2010
• Kilburn R.N. (2004) The identities of Otitoma and Antimitra (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conidae and Buccinidae). African Invertebrates, 45: 263–270