Obesotoma simplex
Species of gastropod
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Obesotoma simplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Obesotoma simplex | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Obesotoma simplex | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Obesotoma |
| Species: | O. simplex |
| Binomial name | |
| Obesotoma simplex (Middendorf, 1849) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotoma simplex Middendorf, 1849 | |
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean off Svalbard and in the Barents Sea; also in the Bering Strait and in the Sea of Okhotsk
