Odostomia trifida
| Odostomia trifida | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Odostomia trifida | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Odostomia |
| Species: | O. trifida |
| Binomial name | |
| Odostomia trifida (Totten, 1834) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Odostomia trifida, common name the three-toothed odostome, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]
Description
The ivory or off-white shell is smooth and glossy. Its length measures 6 mm. The teleoconch contains eight whorls, with about six impressed revolving lines, the one above and two next below the suture wider and more distinct, and ten or twelve very minute lines at the base of the body whorl. The fold is sharp and oblique.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from New England, USA to New Jersey.
References
- ↑ Totten, Am. Jour. Sci., xxvi, 368
- ↑ ITIS: Odostomia trifida
- ↑ G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII, p. 356, 1889
External links
| External identifiers for Odostomia trifida | |
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| ITIS | 75497 |
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