Obesotoma simplex

Obesotoma simplex
	Drawing of a shell of Obesotoma simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Obesotoma
Species:	O. simplex
Binomial name
	Obesotoma simplex; (Middendorf, 1849)
Synonyms
	Pleurotoma simplex Middendorf, 1849

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

The shell is whitish or flesh-white, under a livid olivaceous epidermis. It is smooth, or with fine spiral striae. The aperture is violaceous to white.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean off Svalbard and in the Barents Sea; also in the Bering Strait and in the Sea of Okhotsk

References

^ ^a ^b Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Middendorff, A.T. (1849) Beitrage zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzahlung und Beschretbung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehorigen Einschaler. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Serie 6. Sciences Mathematique, Physique et Naturelles, 8 (5–6) : 329–516 (In reprint pp. 1–187)
Sars, 1878. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Artktische Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Articae Norvegiae
Bogdanov I.P. 1990. Molluscs of the subfamily Oenopotinae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) of the seas of the USSR. Fauna SSSR, Molluski, 5(3): 1–223 [In Russian]. (Description of shell and radula; distributional map).
Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

External links

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

[WoRMS-1] Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.

[2] G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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