Oenopota elegans

Oenopota elegans
Oenopota elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae [1]
Genus: Oenopota
Species: O. elegans
Binomial name
Oenopota elegans
(Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[2]
  • Defrancia elegans Moller, 1842
  • Lora elegans

Oenopota elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine.

References

  1. ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  2. ^ a b Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139317 on 10 August 2011.
  • 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

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