| Obesotoma gigantea | |
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| Shell of Obesotoma gigantea (museum specimen from Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Obesotoma |
| Species: | O. gigantea |
| Binomial name | |
| Obesotoma gigantea (Mörch, 1869) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Obesotoma gigantea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length varies between 12 mm and 25 mm. It differs from Obesotoma gigas (Verkrüzen, 1875) in a more produced, curved siphonal canal.[2]
Distribution
This marine species is found from Eastern Greenland to Severnaya Zemlya, Russia
References
- 1 2 Obesotoma gigantea (Mörch, 1869). 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
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- Morch, O.A.L. (1869) Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg, recueilles par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette la Recherche en juin 1838. Memoires de la Societe Malacologique de Belgique, 4: 7–32
- Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow
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