Oenopota candida
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. candida
Binomial name
Oenopota candida
(Yokoyama, 1926)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela candida Yokoyama, 1926 (basionym)
  • Curtitoma candida Kantor & Sysoev, 2006
  • Curtitoma microvoluta (Okutani, 1964)
  • Nematoma microvoluta Okutani, 1964
  • Oenopota candita M. Yokoyama, 1926
  • Oenopota microvoluta T.A. Okutani, 1964
  • Turritoma candida M. Yokoyama, 1926
  • Turritoma exquisita P. Bartsch, 1941

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm.

Distribution

This is an Asian low-boreal species, found off Japan at depths between 269 m and 340 m. The species was described based on a Pliocene fossil from the Sawane Formation on Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Oenopota candida (Yokoyama, 1926). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580264 on 2012-08-21
  • Bogdanov & Ito, The Oenopotinae (Gastropoda : Turridae) Mollusks from the Southeastern Part of the Japan Sea [in Japanese]; The Japanese journal of malacology 51(1・2), p11-41, 1992-07
  • Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.
  • Hasegawa, K., Okutani, T. and E. Tsuchida (2000) Family Turridae. In: Okutani, T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 619-667 (in Japanese)


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