Obesotoma cymata
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| Obesotoma cymata | |
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| Original image of a shell of Obesotoma cymata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Obesotoma |
| Species: | O. cymata |
| Binomial name | |
| Obesotoma cymata (Dall, 1919) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lora tenuilirata var. cymata Dall, 1919 (basionym) | |
Obesotoma cymata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 10.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell resembles typical Obesotoma tenuilirata (Dall, 1871, but with a higher and more acute spire, and with 20 or more narrow axial riblets on the body whorl, obsolete on the base, and a single spiral thread at the shoulder.[2]
