''Oenopota excurvata'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Mangeliidae.
Description
The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm. The characteristics are similar to ''
Curtitoma trevelliana
''Curtitoma trevelliana'' 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 12 mm.
The whitish shell is somewhat thin, ovately fusiform an ...
''
(Turton, 1834) except for the white color, being shorter and the margins of the whorls being more curved.
Distribution
This species occurs from the
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...
to the
Salish Sea, Northwest America
References
Philip Carpenter, Diagnoses Specierum et Varietatum novarum Moluscorum prope sinum Pugetianum; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia vol. 17 (1865)Carpenter P. (1872) The Mollusks of Western North America, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
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excurvata
Gastropods described in 1864
Taxa named by Philip Pearsall Carpenter
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