Ophiodermella cancellata

Ophiodermella cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Borsoniidae
Genus: Ophiodermella
Species: O. cancellata
Binomial name
Ophiodermella cancellata
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia cancellata Carpenter, 1864 (original combination)
  • † Moniliopsis chacei Berry, 1941
  • Moniliopsis rhines Dall, 1919
  • Pleurotoma rhines Dall, W.H., 1908 (unnecessary nom. nov. pro Drillia cancellata Carpenter, 1864)
  • Pleurotoma vancouverensis Smith, E.A., 1880
  • Surcula rhines Dall, 1908

Ophiodermella cancellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.[1]

Description

The shell resembles a young Ophiodermella inermis in form. The spire is decorticated with four planate whorls remaining. The suture is distinct. The sculpture of the shell shows about twenty small longitudinal ribs crossed by close revolving striae, cancellating the surface, and sometimes the intersections are subnodulous. [2]

It is a vermivore, but it feeds mainly on an oweniid polychaete Galathowenia oculata (Zachs, 1923) [3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from British Columbia, Canada to Washington, USA

References

  1. 1 2 Ophiodermella cancellata (Carpenter, 1864).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 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 (described as Drillia cancellata)
  3. ↑ Shimek, Ophiodermalla biology; Malacologia v.23 (1982-1983)
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