''Oenopota lutkeana'' 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 this rare shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.
The brownish shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains 6 whorls with the spire scarcely angulate next to the suture. The sculpture consists of numerous longitudinal lines and 18–20 spiral plications. These are little prominent divided as it were in the middle above a longitudinal line and reaching the line in the last whorl.
A. Krause, Ein Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Mollusken-Fauna des Beeringsmeeres; Archiv für Naturgeschichte Jahrg. 51 Bd 1, 1885
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Distribution
This marine species occurs in the St. Lawrence Bay, Bering Strait
References
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295
Biolib.cz: ''Oenopota lutkeana''
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Gastropods described in 1886