Dicella [SEP] parent taxon
Dicella
Dicella is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. "Dicella" includes seven species, assigned to two sections. Section "Dicella" comprises "D. bracteosa" and "D. nucifera", found in southeastern Brazil and adjacent Paraguay and Argentina. Section "Macropterys" includes "D. aciculifera", known only from Costa Rica, and "D. conwayi, D. julianii, D. macroptera", and "D. oliveirae", all of South America from
Odostomia dicella
Odostomia dicella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Description.
The small shell measures 3 mm. It is elongate-ovate, somewhat translucent, bluish-white. The nuclear whorls are small, very obliquely immersed in the first of the succeeding turns. The five post-nuclear whorls are well rounded. They are marked by four spiral cords between the sutures, the three posterior of which are nodulose on the early