- Odostomia granadensis
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Odostomia granadensis Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade PanpulmonataSuperfamily: Pyramidelloidea Family: Pyramidellidae Genus: Odostomia Species: O. granadensis Binomial name Odostomia granadensis
Dall & Bartsch, 1909Odostomia granadensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1] [2]
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Description
The very slender, ovate-conic shell measures 2.6 mm. It is white with a narrow, faint yellow band a little posterior to the middle between the sutures. The nuclear whorls are very deeply obliquely immersed in the first of the succeeding turns, above which only the tilted edge of the last volution projects. The five post-nuclear whorls are flattened, slightly contracted at the sutures, and feebly shouldered at the summits. The periphery and the base of the body whorl are well rounded, the latter somewhat attenuated. The entire surface of the spire and the base is marked by many fine, closely spaced, wavy spiral striations, which are considerably stronger on the base than between the sutures. The aperture is ovate. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin. The columella is short, slender, curved and feebly revolute, and provided with a fold at its insertion. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Panama Bay.
References
- ^ WoRMS (2011). Odostomia granadensis Dall & Bartsch, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575852 on 2011-11-10
- ^ Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
- ^ William Healy Dall and Paul Bartsch , "A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks" , Smithsonian Institution, 1909
External links
External identifiers for Odostomia granadensis WoRMS 575852 Categories:
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