Oenopota bicarinata

Oenopota bicarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae ^[1]
Genus:	Oenopota
Species:	O. bicarinata
Binomial name
*Oenopota bicarinata* (Couthouy, 1838)
Synonyms^[2]
Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838

Oenopota bicarinata, common name the two-corded lora, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, the arctic Canadian waters and the Gulf of Maine.

References

↑ Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
1 2 Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.

Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp.
Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.

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