Oenopota lutkeana

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

Oenopota lutkeana
Original image of a shell of Oenopota lutkeana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Oenopota
Species:
O. lutkeana
Binomial name
Oenopota lutkeana
(Krause, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Bela lütkeana Krause, 1886 (original combination)
  • Lora lutkeana (Krause, 1886)

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

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References
  1. 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. A. Krause, Ein Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Mollusken-Fauna des Beeringsmeeres; Archiv für Naturgeschichte Jahrg. 51 Bd 1, 1885
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