Obesotoma gigantea explained

Obesotoma gigantea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length varies between 12 mm and 25 mm. It differs from Obesotoma gigas (Verkrüzen, 1875) in a more produced, curved siphonal canal.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is found from Eastern Greenland to Severnaya Zemlya, Russia

References

• Morch, O.A.L. (1869) Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg, recueilles par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette la Recherche en juin 1838. Memoires de la Societe Malacologique de Belgique, 4: 7–32
• Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences