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

Oenopota rosea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Oenopota
Species:
O. rosea
Binomial name
Oenopota rosea
(Lovén, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lora rosea Sars, 1846
  • Oenopota quoyi C. des Moulins, 1842

According to J.Tucker, this species is a synonym of Oenopota harpularius, itself a synonym of Propebela harpularia (Couthouy, 1838)

Description edit

Distribution edit

This marine species is circumboreal and also occurs off Alaska, Simeonoff Island to San Juan Islands, Washington, USA.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Oenopota declivis (Lovén, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
  • Lovén, Sven Ludvig. Index molluscorum: litora Scandinaviæ occidentalia habitantium. Faunæ prodromum. PA Norstedt, 1846.
  • G. O. Sars Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., pi. 23, fig. 10

External links edit

  • 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.
  • Femorale: Oenopota rosea
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.