Ophiodermella Explained

Ophiodermella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.

Species

Species within the genus Ophiodermella include:

• Ophiodermella akkeshiensis (Habe, 1958)
• Ophiodermella cancellata (Carpenter, 1864)
• Ophiodermella fancherae (Dall, 1903)
• Ophiodermella grippi (Dall, 1919)
• Ophiodermella inermis (Reeve, 1843)
• Ophiodermella miyatensis (Yokoyama, 1920)
• Ophiodermella ogurana (Yokoyama, 1922)

Species brought into synonymy :

• † Ophiodermella bella Ozaki, 1958: synonym of Retimohnia bella (Ozaki, 1958) (original combination)
• Ophiodermella incisa (Carpenter, 1864): synonym of Ophiodermella inermis (Reeve, 1843)
• Ophiodermella montereyensis Bartsch, 1944: synonym of Ophiodermella inermis (Reeve, 1843)

References

• Shimek, R. L. "Biology of the northeastern Pacific Turridae. 1. Ophiodermella." Malacologia 23.2 (1983): 281-312.
• McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160

External links

• Bartsch, P, Some turrid mollusks of Monterey Bay and vicinity; Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, v. 57 p. 57-68
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . PDF . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 .