Eucithara conohelicoides
Eucithara conohelicoides is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Eucithara |
| Species: | E. conohelicoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucithara conohelicoides (Reeve, 1846) | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shell is longitudinally many ridged, transversely striate. Its color is yellowish white, with sometimes a large orange-brown blotch on the back of the body-whorl.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and off Queensland, Australia.
References
- WoRMS (2009). Eucithara conohelicoides. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433708 on 2017-05-03
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Mangelia. pls 1-8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
- Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 286, pl. 13 fig. 4
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- "Eucithara conohelicoides". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- MNHN, Paris: Eucithara conohelicoides
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