Odostomia excelsa

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Odostomia excelsa
Apertural view of the shell of Odostomia excelsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Odostomia
Species: O. excelsa
Binomial name
Odostomia excelsa
Dall & Bartsch, 1909
Synonyms

Chrysallida excelsa (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)

Odostomia excelsa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1][2]


Description

The white shell has a broadly conic shape. Its length measures 3.3 mm. The whorls of the protoconch are smooth, almost completely obliquely immersed in the first of the succeeding turns, above which the tilted edge of the last whorl only projects. The seven whorls of the teleoconch are flattened, strongly contracted at the sutures and somewhat shouldered at the summit. They are marked by strong protractive axial ribs, of which 16 occur upon the second, 18 upon the third, and 20 upon the remaining turns. In addition to the axial ribs the whorls are marked by four slender spiral cords between the sutures, which render the ribs tuberculate at their junction. The spaces enclosed by the ribs and spiral cords are deep, quadrangular pits, the long axis of which coincides with the spiral cords. The periphery of the body whorl is marked by a strong sulcus which is crossed by the continuation of the axial ribs. The base of the body whorl is attenuated, well rounded, and marked by eight subequal and subequally spaced low spiral cords, the grooves between which are crossed by many slender axial threads. The summit of the last whorl falls below the first basal keel and leaves this in the suture. On the last half of the last turn, an additional slender spiral thread divides the space between the first and second and second and third strong spiral cords. The aperture is pyriform, somewhat effuse anteriorly. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is thin, showing the external sculpture within. The columella is strong, curved, decidedly reflected over the re-enforcing base, and provided with a strong fold at its insertion The parietal wall is covered with a strong callus which renders the periostome complete. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Bay of Panama.

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS (2011). Odostomia excelsa Dall & Bartsch, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575844 on 2011-11-10
  2. ↑ Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064:
  3. ↑ William Healy Dall and Paul Bartsch , "A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks" , Smithsonian Institution, 1909

External links

External identifiers for Odostomia excelsa
WoRMS 575844
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