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Odostomia
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Odostomia is the most speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is placed in the family Pyramidellidae in the subfamily Odostomiinae. There are several hundred species in this diverse genus (Schander et al. 1999)
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyPyramidellidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4,356
- With media
- 244
- Family
- Pyramidellidae
- Collections
- LACM, PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK, USNM, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States, Israel, Spain, United Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Description
- Life habits
- Species
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Odostomia is the most speciose genus of minute sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is placed in the family Pyramidellidae in the subfamily Odostomiinae. There are several hundred species in this diverse genus (Schander et al. 1999)
Most of the description of species in the genus Odostomia was carried out by Dall & Bartsch in 1909. Many of the described species are however suspected of being synonyms, or are proven synonyms.
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