Odostomia trifida
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Cleanup taxon|date=Jan 2019|concern=unaccepted}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Odostomia trifida
| image = Odostomia trifida 001.png
| image_caption = Drawing of a shell of Odostomia trifida
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Gastropoda
| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
| superfamilia = Pyramidelloidea
| familia = Pyramidellidae
| subfamilia =
| genus = Odostomia
| subgenus =
| species = O. trifida
| binomial = Odostomia trifida
| binomial_authority = (Totten, 1834)Totten, Am. Jour. Sci., xxvi, 368
| synonyms_ref =
| synonyms =
- Odostomia bedequensis Bartsch, 1909
- Odostomia (Boonea) trifida Totten, 1834 (basionym)
}}
Odostomia trifida, common name the three-toothed odostome, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=75497 ITIS: Odostomia trifida]
Description
The ivory or off-white shell is smooth and glossy. Its length measures 6 mm. The teleoconch contains eight whorls, with about six impressed revolving lines, the one above and two next below the suture wider and more distinct, and ten or twelve very minute lines at the base of the body whorl. The fold is sharp and oblique.G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII, p. 356, 1889
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from New England, USA to New Jersey.
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022051434/http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_45775.shtml Gastropods.com: Odostomia (Boonea) trifida; retrieved: 21 January 2012]
External links
- [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=75497 ITIS]
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