Brachycythara brevis

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

Brachycythara brevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Brachycythara
Species:
B. brevis
Binomial name
Brachycythara brevis
(Adams C. B., 1850)
Synonyms[1]

Mangelia brevis Adams C. B., 1850

Description

The length of the shell attains 4 mm.

(Original description) The short shell has a fusiform shape. Its color is orange or wax yellow, white along the upper part of the whorls and anteriorly. It shows very strong transverse ribs, about nine on each whorl, smooth on the summits, with unequal microscopic spiral elevated lines. The protoconch is subacute. The spire has very convex outlines. It contains about six whorls, moderately convex or subangular, with a lightly impressed suture. The aperture is quite narrow. The outer lip is much thickened by the last rib. The sinus is rather large. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Jamaica and the Virgin Islands

References
  1. Brachycythara brevis (Adams C. B., 1850). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
  2. Adams, C. B. 1850. Description of supposed new species of marine shells which inhabit Jamaica. Contributions to Conchology, 4: 56–68, 109–123
  • Clench & Turner, 1950. The Western Atlantic marine mollusks described by C. B. Adams.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Brachycythara brevis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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