Anticlinura movilla

Anticlinura movilla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Anticlinura movilla
Original image of a shell of Anticlinura movilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Anticlinura
Species:
A. movilla
Binomial name
Anticlinura movilla
(W.H. Dall, 1908)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia movilla Dall, 1908 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.9 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.

(Original description) The small, thin, white shell has a fusiform shape. It contains about five whorls beside the (eroded) protoconch. The suture is distinct and slightly appressed. The anal fasciole is narrow, nearly smooth except for lines of growth, bordered in front by an inconspicuous angular shoulder. From this shoulder extend (on the body whorl about eighteen) feeble, narrow, subequal, protractive, axial riblets, with subequal interspaces, crossed by fine, close-set spiral threads. The ribs extend to the suture, or on the body whorl to the base, and the threads cover the whole surface. The anal sulcus is shallow. The outer lip is thin, simple, moderately arcuate. The columella and the body are smooth, the former obliquely attenuated in front, not pervious. The siphonal canal is short, wide and slightly recurved [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Acapulco, Mexico.

    References
    1. WoRMS (2015). Anticlinura movilla (Dall, 1908). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432976 on 2017-03-01
    2. W.H. Dall (1908) Reports on the Mollusca and Brachiopoda, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. vol. 43
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