Anacithara querna
Anacithara querna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Anacithara querna | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Horaiclavidae |
| Genus: | Anacithara |
| Species: | A. querna |
| Binomial name | |
| Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910) | |
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Description
(Original description) The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm. A thickened pale brown or straw-coloured shell with few ribs, the number only extending to nine on the body whorl. Altogether it is seven-whorled, two of these being apical. The outer lip is thickened. No trace of sinus is perceptible. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Iran
References
- WoRMS (2015). Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432963 on 12 December 2016
- Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI
External links
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa. 682:1–1295.
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