Anacithara nanisca

Anacithara nanisca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Anacithara nanisca
Original images of a shell of Anacithara nanisca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Species:
A. nanisca
Binomial name
Anacithara nanisca
(Hervier, 1897)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia nanisca Hervier, 1897

R.N. Kilburn disputed in 1994 that Mangilia nanisca should belong to the genus Anacithara, as it shows apertural features that are unknown in Anacithara, such as two median denticles in the inner lip and a posterior nodule on the outer lip.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Queensland, Australia and off the Loyalty Islands

References
  1. WoRMS (2015). WoRMS (2015). Anacithara nanisca (Hervier, 1897). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432955 on 2016-12-19
  2. Kilburn, R. N. "Turridae [sl](Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2." Annals of the Natal Museum 35 (1994): 177-228.
  • Hervier, J. 1897. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 47–69, pls 2-3
  • Bouge & Dautzenberg, Journal de Conchyliologie., Ixi., 1913 (1914), p. 153.
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