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Oenopota healyi

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Species of gastropod

Oenopota healyi
Shell of Oenopota healyi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Oenopota
Species: O. healyi
Binomial name
Oenopota healyi
(W. H. Dall, 1919)
Synonyms

Lora healyi W. H. Dall, 1919 (original description)

Oenopota healyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 7 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is more or less discolored by ferruginous red (probably adventitious). It contains 5½ rounded whorls, a subglobular smooth protoconch forming1½ of these. The spiral sculpture consists of (on the penultimate whorl 6 or 7, on the body whorl about 14) coarse rather irregular cords with narrower channelled interspaces. The cords are more or less nodulated by incremental lines and on the spire by obscure ribbing. The suture is distinct. The aperture is narrow and simple. The columella is white and erased. The siphonal canal is short and straight.

Distribution

This marine species was occurs in the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Straits.

References

  1. ^ Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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Taxon identifiers
Oenopota healyi
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