Biology:Obesotoma simplex
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Obesotoma simplex | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Obesotoma simplex | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mollusca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Gastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Caenogastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Neogastropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Conoidea |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mangeliidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Obesotoma |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">O. simplex |
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| Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849)
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Pleurotoma simplex Middendorf, 1849 | |
Obesotoma simplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.
The shell is whitish or flesh-white, under a livid olivaceous epidermis. It is smooth, or with fine spiral striae. The aperture is violaceous to white.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean off Svalbard and in the Barents Sea; also in the Bering Strait and in the Sea of Okhotsk
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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- Middendorff, A.T. (1849) Beitrage zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzahlung und Beschretbung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehorigen Einschaler. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Serie 6. Sciences Mathematique, Physique et Naturelles, 8 (5–6) : 329–516 (In reprint pp. 1–187)
- Sars, 1878. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Artktische Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Articae Norvegiae
- Bogdanov I.P. 1990. Molluscs of the subfamily Oenopotinae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) of the seas of the USSR. Fauna SSSR, Molluski, 5(3): 1–223 [In Russian]. (Description of shell and radula; distributional map).
- Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
External links
- "Obesotoma simplex" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_8855.shtml.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
Wikidata ☰ Q3138965 entry
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