Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Pylopulmonata > Superfamily Pyramidelloidea > Family Pyramidellidae > Genus Odostomia

Odostomia unidentata (Montagu, 1803)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Turbonilla Risso, 1826

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Odostomia*	J. Fleming, 1813	accepted genus name
*Odontostoma*	R. A. Philippi, 1853	synonym
*Odontostomia*	Jeffreys, 1839	synonym
*Odostomia (Cyclodostomia)*	Sacco, 1892	synonym
*Odostomia (Egila)*	Dall & Bartsch, 1904	synonym
*Odostomia (Odostomia)*	J. Fleming, 1813	synonym
*Ptychostomon*	Locard, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Odostomia unidentata var. elata*	Jeffreys, 1867	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Odostomia albella*	(Lovén, 1846)	synonym
*Odostomia litoris*	Coen, 1933	synonym
*Odostomia unidentata sarsi*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Odostomia unidentata var. albella*	(Lovén, 1846)	synonym
*Turbo unidentatus*	Montagu, 1803	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: brede tandhoren; breed tandhorentje sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.;Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59

English: large-toothed pyramid shell; large-toothed pyramidsnail sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Einzahn-Pyramidenschnecke

Literature

additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Landau, B.M. & Micali, P. (2021). The Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 13: Murchisonelloidea and Pyramidelloidea. Cainozoic Research. 21(2): 201-393.
status source	Nofroni, I., Oliverio, M., Renda, W. & Vannozzi, A. (2022). Let bygones be bygones: The troubled chronicle of Odostomia unidentata (Montagu, 1803) (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 58(2): 75-83.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Odostomia unidentata (Montagu, 1803). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141025