title: Mangelia crebricostata
text: # Mangelia crebricostata
  
  Mangelia crebricostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  Compared with Oenopota aleutica (W.H. Dall, 1871), in Mangelia crebricostata the whorls are not so much angulated, the ribs pass from the suture to the lower end of the whorl, and the aperture is narrower and longer. The shell is also much more slender and smaller.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs from Forrester Island, Alaska, and Vancouver Island, Canada, to Monterey, California, United States.
  
  