Cythara paucicostata

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

Cythara paucicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Cythara
Species:
C. paucicostata
Binomial name
Cythara paucicostata
(Pease, W.H., 1867)
Synonyms
  • Cithara paucicostata Pease W.H., 1867 (original combination)
  • Mangilia paucicostata Pease, 1867

This species is considered a nomen dubium.

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.

References
  1. "Cythara paucicostata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. Pease, W. H., 1867. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 3(3): 211–222, pl. 15
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