Oenopota kyskana

Oenopota kyskana
	Original image of a shell of Oenopota kyskana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. kyskana
Binomial name
	Oenopota kyskana; (W.H. Dall, 1919)
Synonyms
	Lora kyskana W.H. Dall, 1919 (original description)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 10.5 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is closely related to Propebela fidicula (Gould, 1849), but with looser and less regular sculpture. The protoconch is defective. The shell has about six shouldered whorls. The suture is distinct. The anal fasciole is obscure, undulated by the ends of the ribs, spirally striated. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl 14 or 15) rounded ribs with wider interspaces, prominent at the shoulder, crossing the whorls at the spire, obsolete on the base. The spiral sculpture consists of numerous narrow channeled grooves with wider flattish interspaces, not nodulating the summits of the ribs. On the spire the interspaces are more cordlike, six or seven between the shoulder and the succeeding suture. The aperture is simple. The inner lip is erased. The siphonal canal is short and straight.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species was occurs from the Aleutian Islands to Puget Sound.

References

^ ^a ^b Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
"Oenopota kyskana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[Dall-1] Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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