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Brachystomia eulimoides

Brachystomia eulimoides
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Drawing of Brachystomia eulimoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Brachystomia
Species: B. eulimoides
Binomial name
Brachystomia eulimoides
(Hanley, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Brachystomia electa (Jeffreys, 1883) (dubious synonym)
  • Odostomia (Brachystomia) eulimoides Hanley, 1844
  • Odostomia (Megastomia) conoidea conoidea (Brocchi, G.B., 1814)
  • Odostomia crassa Thompson W., 1845
  • Odostomia dubia Jeffreys, 1848
  • Odostomia electa Jeffreys, 1883 (dubious synonym)
  • Odostomia eulimoides Hanley, 1844 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Odostomia notata Jeffreys, 1848
  • Odostomia novegradensis Brusina, 1865
  • Odostomia pallida (Montagu, 1803) sensu Jeffreys, 1867 (based on a nomen dubium)
  • Turbonilla oscitans Lovén, 1846

Brachystomia eulimoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

The milk-white or yellowish white shell is rather solid, nearly opaque, somewhat glossy.Its length measures 5 mm. It is marked by microscopic spiral striae. The six to seven whorls of the teleoconch are somewhat convex, and rapidly enlarging. The suture is moderate, distinct. The umbilical chink is very narrow or is lacking. The columellar tooth is strong.

This species occurs in the following locations:

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