Oenopota amiata

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

Oenopota amiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Oenopota
Species:
O. amiata
Binomial name
Oenopota amiata
(W.H. Dall, 1919)
Synonyms

Lora amiata W.H. Dall, 1919 (original description)

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

(Original description) The shell is elevated and rugose. its color is white under a pale yellow periostracum. It contains six subtabulate whorls. The protoconch is decorticated,. The suture is obscure and closely appressed. The spiral sculpture consists of an angle at the shoulder, between "v/hich" and the suture are four or five close-set small equal threads. In front of the shoulder is a constriction beyond which are about a dozen deep grooves with wider rounded interspaces which are finely spirally striated. On the siphonal canal there are crowded small threads. The axial sculpture consists of about 15 short ribs extending from the shoulder, which they nodulate, to the periphery only. The aperture is narrow with a shallow anal sulcus. The outer lip thin, the inner lip is erased. The siphonal canal is straight and short [1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Belkoffski, Alaska.

References
  1. 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.
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • "Oenopota amiata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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