Oenopota tenuicostata

Oenopota tenuicostata
	Two views of a shell of Oenopota tenuicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. tenuicostata
Binomial name
	Oenopota tenuicostata; (Sars G.O., 1878)
Synonyms[1]
	Bela conoidea Friele, H., 1886; Bela finmarchia Friele, H., 1886; Bela tenuicostata Sars G. O., 1878 (original combination); Bela willei Friele, H., 1877; Pleurotoma scalaris Reeve, L.A., 1845;

Oenopota tenuicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies from 5 mm to 13 mm.

This species resembles Curtitoma decussata (Couthouy, 1839) but is smaller and has more numerous ribs.[2]

This marine species occurs off Greenland and Novaya Zemlya at depths between 200 m and 2702 m.

Sars, G.O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1–34 & I-XVIII
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
Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155

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