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 acuta Jeffreys, 1848

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

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 acuta var. attenuata*	J. T. Marshall, 1893	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Odostomia acuta var. gracilis*	J. T. Marshall, 1893	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Odostomia umbilicaris var. elongata*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Odostomia umbilicata*	Alder, 1850	synonym

Literature

original description	Jeffreys, J. G. (1848). On the recent species of Odostomia, a genus of gasteropodous mollusks inhabiting the seas of Great Britain and Ireland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2)2: 330-351.
basis of record	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.
additional source	Nekhaev I.O. (2017). New records of molluscs of the families Eulimidae and Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda) from the Barents Sea and adjacent Polar Basin. Ruthenica. 27(2): 59-63.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Odostomia acuta Jeffreys, 1848. 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:140976