Citharomangelia townsendi

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

Citharomangelia townsendi
Original image of a shell of Citharomangelia townsendi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Citharomangelia
Species:
C. townsendi
Binomial name
Citharomangelia townsendi
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1895)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell varies attains 13 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm.

(Original description) The elongate-fusiform shell approaches in form the European Mangelia attenuata (Montagu, 1803), but it is larger, the elongate spire proportionately longer, whilst the whorls are slightly shouldered. The transverse striae are very fine, and the longitudinal ribs regular and rounded. The colour is yellowish white, suffused with greyish green, with transverse lines of light brown, and a dark brown band, interrupted by the ribs, at the angle of the whorls, and another near the base of the body-whorl. The aperture is oblong and very narrow. The outer lip is acute and incrassate.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pakistan and West India.

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia townsendi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1895). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433221 on 2017-04-10
  2. Sowerby G.B. III, 1895. New species of shells from Karachi and the Mekran coast, collected by Mr F. W. Townsend. . 1: 278–280, pI. 18
  • Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
  • "Citharomangelia townsendi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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