''Oenopota rosea'' 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 ...

mollusc 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 esti ...

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 ...

. According to J.Tucker, this species is a synonym of '' Oenopota harpularius'', itself a synonym of ''

Propebela harpularia ''Propebela harpularia'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. The taxonomy is this species is uncertain. Relying on Tucker, the websit, Gastropods.com states this species as ''Oenopota harpularius'' ...

'' (Couthouy, 1838)

Description

Distribution

This marine species is circumboreal and also occurs off

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

, Simeonoff Island to

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, Washington, USA.

References

* Lovén, Sven Ludvig. Index molluscorum: litora Scandinaviæ occidentalia habitantium. Faunæ prodromum. PA Norstedt, 1846. * G. O. Sars Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., pi. 23, fig. 10

External links

Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921

Femorale: ''Oenopota rosea''
* rosea Gastropods described in 1846 {{Oenopota-stub