- Ophiodermella inermis
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Ophiodermella inermis 
Apertural view of Ophiodermella inermis Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Conoidea Family: Borsoniidae [1] Genus: Ophiodermella Species: O. inermis Binomial name Ophiodermella inermis
(Reeve, 1843)Synonyms[2] - Drillia incisa Carpenter, P.P., 1864
- Ophiodermella ophioderma Dall, W.H., 1908
- Ophiodermella montereyensis Bartsch, P., 1944
- Pleurotoma inermis Reeve, 1843
Ophiodermella inermis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[2]
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Description
The shell grows to a length of 40 mm.
The shell is pinkish ash-colored under a light olivaceous epidermis. The lines of growth are sometimes rib-like, oblique and angulated at the periphery and lighter-colored, so that the interspaces appear like angulated lines of chestnut or reddish narrow stripes. The whole surface is covered by close revolving incised lines. [3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to California.
References
- ^ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
- ^ a b Ophiodermella inermis (Reeve, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434547 on 14 August 2011.
- ^ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI, p. 182; 1884 (described as Drillia incisa)
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