Odostomia ziziphina

Odostomia ziziphina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]

Odostomia ziziphina
Drawing of a shell of Odostomia ziziphina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Pyramidelloidea
Family:
Pyramidellidae
Genus:
Odostomia
Species:
O. ziziphina
Binomial name
Odostomia ziziphina
Synonyms
  • Odostomia (Menestho) ziziphina Carpenter, 1857
  • Parthenia ziziphina Carpenter,1856

Description

The minute, white shell has a conic shape. The length is 0.65 mm. The protoconch is mammillated. The whorls of the teleoconch are marked by five spiral lirations of which two appear between the sutures, one at the periphery and two on the base. The columella has an oblique fold.[4]

Distribution

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Mazatlán, Mexico.

References
  1. Carpenter, Cat. Mazatlan Shells, 1856, p. 416.
  2. WoRMS (2011). Odostomia ziziphina Carpenter, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575930 on 2012-01-12
  3. Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
  4. Dall & Bartsch, A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks, United States National Museum Bulletin 68, 1 p. 186-187; 1909
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