Oenopota lutkeana explained

Oenopota lutkeana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

The length of this rare shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

The brownish shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It contains 6 whorls with the spire scarcely angulate next to the suture. The sculpture consists of numerous longitudinal lines and 18–20 spiral plications. These are little prominent divided as it were in the middle above a longitudinal line and reaching the line in the last whorl.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the St. Lawrence Bay, Bering Strait

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/summaryofmarin1121921dall Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29987#page/345/mode/1up A. Krause, Ein Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Mollusken-Fauna des Beeringsmeeres; Archiv für Naturgeschichte Jahrg. 51 Bd 1, 1885