''Obesotoma'' is a
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sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...
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Species
Species within the genus ''Obesotoma'' include:
* ''
Obesotoma cymata
''Obesotoma cymata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.Bouchet, P. (2017). Obesotoma cymata (Dall, 1919). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.m ...
''
(Dall, 1919)
* ''
Obesotoma gigantea
''Obesotoma gigantea'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length varies between 12 mm and 25 mm. It differs from '' Obesotoma gigas'' (Verkrüzen, 1875) in a more produc ...
''
(Mörch, 1869)
* ''
Obesotoma gigas
''Obesotoma gigas'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 14 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs off Svalbard and Arctic Russia
Russia (, ...
''
(Verkrüzen, 1875)
* ''
Obesotoma hokkaidoensis''
(Bartsch, 1941)
* ''
Obesotoma iessoensis''
(Smith E. A., 1875)
* ''
Obesotoma japonica
''Obesotoma japonica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 24 mm and 27 mm.
Distribution
This species was found in the Sea of Japan
...
''
Bartsch, 1941
* ''
Obesotoma laevigata
''Obesotoma laevigata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 20 mm.
(Original description) The short, stout shell consists of f ...
''
(Dall, 1871)
* ''
Obesotoma okutanii
''Obesotoma okutanii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 4.6 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Sea of Japan and off Labrador
, nic ...
''
Bogdanov & Ito, 1992
* ''
Obesotoma oyashio
''Obesotoma oyashio'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 20 mm.
Distribution
This species is found in the Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is t ...
''
Shikama, 1962
* ''
Obesotoma pulcherrima''
Bogdanov & Ito, 1992
* ''
Obesotoma robusta''
(Packard, 1866)
* ''
Obesotoma sachalinensis''
Bogdanov, 1989
* ''
Obesotoma simplex
''Obesotoma simplex'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.
The shell is whitish or flesh-white, under a livid olivaceous ...
''
(Middendorf, 1849)
* ''
Obesotoma solida
''Obesotoma solida'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
There seems to be some confusion as to regards the synonyms of this species. Gastropods.com considers ''Lora quadra'' Dall, 1919 ...
''
(Dall, 1887)
* ''
Obesotoma starobogatovi''
Bogdanov, 1990
* ''
Obesotoma tenuilirata
''Obesotoma tenuilirata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 24 mm.
W.H. Dall considered this originally as perhaps a variet ...
''
(Dall, 1871)
* ''
Obesotoma tomiyaensis''
(Otuka, 1949)
* ''
Obesotoma tumida''
(Posselt, 1898)
* ''
Obesotoma uchidai
''Obesotoma uchidai'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipe ...
''
Habe, 1958
* ''
Obesotoma woodiana''
(Møller, 1842)
; Species brought into synonymy :
* ''Obesotoma hanazakiensis''
Habe, 1958: synonym of ''Oenopota hanazakiensis''
(Habe, 1958)
* ''Obesotoma miona'' (Dall, W.H., 1919): synonym of ''
Propebela miona'' (Dall, W.H., 1919)
* ''Obesotoma schantarica''
Middendorff, 1849:
synonym of ''
Oenopota schantaricum''
(Middendorf, 1849)
References
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
External links
P Bartsch. "The Nomenclatorial Status of Certain Northern Turritid Mollusks"; Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington 54, 1-14, 1941 Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
Gulbin, Vladimir V. "Review of the Shell-bearing Gastropods in the Russian Waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). III. Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda." The Korean Journal of Malacology 25.1 (2009): 51-70
Gastropod genera
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