''Obesotoma solida'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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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 Re ...

Description

There seems to be some confusion as to regards the synonyms of this species. Gastropods.com considers ''Lora quadra'' Dall, 1919 a synonym, while WoRMS considers ''Lora quadra'' a synonym of '' Oenopota quadra'' (Dall, 1919).. Forster considers ''Bela solida'' Dall, 1887 (and ''Lora solida'' Dall, 1921) a synonym of ''Oenopota solida'' Dall, 1887, while WoRMS doesn't mention ''Oenopota solida''Foster, Nora Rakestraw. A synopsis of the marine prosobranch gastropod and bivalve mollusks in Alaskan waters. Diss. 1979
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Distribution

This marine species occurs in the

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and the Bering Sea to

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References

* Hasegawa, K., Okutani, T. and E. Tsuchida (2000) ''Family Turridae''. In: Okutani, T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 619–667 (in Japanese).

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295

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solida Gastropods described in 1887 {{Mangeliidae-stub