Mangelia crebricostata

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

Mangelia crebricostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. crebricostata
Binomial name
Mangelia crebricostata
Carpenter, 1864
Synonyms
  • Daphnella crebricostata (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Kurtziella crebricostata (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Mangilia crebricostata (Carpenter, 1864)
  • Oenopota crebricostata (Carpenter, 1864)

Description

Compared with Oenopota aleutica (W.H. Dall, 1871), in Mangelia crebricostata the whorls are not so much angulated, the ribs pass from the suture to the lower end of the whorl, and the aperture is narrower and longer. The shell is also much more slender and smaller.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Forrester Island, Alaska, and Vancouver Island, Canada, to Monterey, California, United States.

References
  1. Mangelia crebricostata Carpenter, 1864. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2011.
  2. W.H. Dall, Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks from the West Coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described; American Journal of Concholohy vol. 7, 1871 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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