''Oenopota gilpini'' is a species of

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, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

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 Regis ...

.Rosenberg, G. (2010). Oenopota gilpini (Verkrüzen, 1878). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160416 on 2017-11-08 This species is considered a

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Description

Th length of the shell attains 6.5 mm. Last whorl occupies about two thirds of shell height (range 56-75 %). Size: Up to 12 x 5 mm

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the

Bay of Fundy The Bay of Fundy (french: Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. It is an arm of the Gulf of Maine. Its extremely high tidal range is the hi ...

, Nova Scotia, Canada.

References

* Verkruzen, T. A. 1878. ''Zur Fauna von Neu-Schotland (Nova Scotia) und Neufundland'' Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 5 208–230.

External links

* gilpini Gastropods described in 1878 {{Oenopota-stub