Oenopota pavlova

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

Oenopota pavlova
Original image of a shell of Oenopota pavlova
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Oenopota
Species:
O. pavlova
Binomial name
Oenopota pavlova
(W.H. Dall, 1919)
Synonyms
  • Lora pavlova W.H. Dall, 1919 (original description)
  • Nodotoma pavlova (W.H. Dall, 1919)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7.5 mm and 20 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is thin and delicate. It contains six or more whorls, the protoconch eroded. The spiral sculpture consists of fine striae with wider flat interspaces minutely cut into segments by close regular incremental lines. The whorls are subangulate at the shoulder. The axial sculpture consists of sharp, sigmoid riblets (22 or more on the penultimate whorl) obsolete on the base and on most of the body whorl. The anal sulcus is wide and shallow. The aperture is simple. The inner lip is erased.[2]

Distribution

This marine species was found off the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea

References
  1. Oenopota pavlova (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 August 2011.
  2. 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). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Nodotoma pavolva". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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