''Odostomia tenuis'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the

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Pyramidellidae Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micr ...

, the pyrams and their allies.WoRMS (2011). ''Odostomia tenuis'' Carpenter, 1856. Accessed through:

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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575915 on 2011-11-29Keen M. (1971). Sea shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú. (2nd edit.). Stanford University Press pp. 1064: Odostomia tenuis 001

References

External links

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection

To World Register of Marine Species
tenuis Gastropods described in 1856 {{Odostomia-stub