Obesotoma simplex

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

Obesotoma simplex
Drawing of a shell of Obesotoma simplex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Obesotoma
Species:
O. simplex
Binomial name
Obesotoma simplex
(Middendorf, 1849)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma simplex Middendorf, 1849

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

The shell is whitish or flesh-white, under a livid olivaceous epidermis. It is smooth, or with fine spiral striae. The aperture is violaceous to white.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean off Svalbard and in the Barents Sea; also in the Bering Strait and in the Sea of Okhotsk

References
  1. Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Middendorff, A.T. (1849) Beitrage zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzahlung und Beschretbung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehorigen Einschaler. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Serie 6. Sciences Mathematique, Physique et Naturelles, 8 (5–6) : 329–516 (In reprint pp. 1–187)
  • Sars, 1878. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Artktische Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Articae Norvegiae
  • Bogdanov I.P. 1990. Molluscs of the subfamily Oenopotinae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) of the seas of the USSR. Fauna SSSR, Molluski, 5(3): 1–223 [In Russian]. (Description of shell and radula; distributional map).
  • 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
  • "Obesotoma simplex". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
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