Odostomia ziziphina
| Odostomia ziziphina | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Odostomia ziziphina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Odostomia |
| Species: | O. ziziphina |
| Binomial name | |
| Odostomia ziziphina Carpenter, 1857 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Odostomia ziziphina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2][3]
Description
The minute, white shell has a conic shape. The length is 0.65 mm. The protoconch is mammillated. The whorls of the teleoconch are marked by five spiral lirations of which two appear between the sutures, one at the periphery and two on the base. The columella has an oblique fold.[4]
Distribution
The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Mazatlán, Mexico.
References
- ↑ Carpenter, Cat. Mazatlan Shells, 1856, p. 416.
- ↑ WoRMS (2011). Odostomia ziziphina Carpenter, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575930 on 2012-01-12
- ↑ Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
- ↑ Dall & Bartsch, A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks, United States National Museum Bulletin 68, 1 p. 186-187; 1909
External links
| External identifiers for Odostomia ziziphina | |
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| WoRMS | 575930 |
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