Odostomia occultidens
| Odostomia occultidens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Odostomia |
| Species: | O. occultidens |
| Binomial name | |
| Odostomia occultidens May W.L., 1915 | |
Odostomia occultidens, common name the hidden-toothed pyramid-shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]
Description
The length of the shell measures 1.5 mm. The minute, white shell is translucent, shining, and smooth. The shell contains three whorls plus a prominent heterostrophe pullus. The adult whorls are rounded, regularly increasing. The aperture is ovately-pyriform. The columella is arched, thin, with a minute plication, rather above the centre, which is invisible from a front view.[2]
Distribution
This species is found in the littoral zone and offshore off New South Wales, the Bass Strait and Tasmania
References
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D. F., 1962, A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. The Australian Museum, Sydney, Memoir, 11:1-185
- Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J., 1962. Marine Mollusca of Victoria. Melbourne Univ. Press, Melbourne. 475
- OBIS : Odostomia occultidens
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