Odostomia rotundata
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| Odostomia rotundata (Carpenter, 1856) [1]
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Odostomia rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2] [3]
Description
The shell has an ovate shape. Its length measures 2.3 mm. The 2 ½ whorls of the protoconch form a depressed helicoid spire whose axis is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns. The four whorls of the teleoconch are well rounded, moderately contracted at the sutures, and very slightly shouldered at the summit. They are marked by five strong spiral keels on all the whorls between the sutures, excepting the first which has four and obsolete axial ribs on the first two. These axial ribs are best expressed near the summit of the whorls, scarcely reaching the suture, and rendering the spiral cords feebly tuberculate. On the body whorl the axial sculpture is reduced to numerous raised axial threads, like those between the cords on the base. The sutures are poorly defined. The base of the body whorl is well rounded. It is marked by six spiral cords of which the two anterior ones are a little weaker than the rest; separated by spaces which are a little narrower than the cords and crossed by numerous fine axial threads. The aperture is pyriform. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin, showing the external sculpture within. The columella is stout, curved, and provided with a weak fold at its insertion. The parietal wall is covered with a thin callus. [4]
Distribution
The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Mazatlán, Mexico.
References
- ^ Carpenter, Cat. Mazatlan shells, 1856, p. 418
- ^ WoRMS (2011). Odostomia rotundata Carpenter, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575901 on 2011-11-10
- ^ Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064
- ^ Dall & Bartsch, A Monograph of West American Pyramidellid Mollusks, United States National Museum Bulletin 68, p. 168; 1909