Eucithara pusilla

Eucithara pusilla is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Eucithara pusilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Eucithara
Species:
E. pusilla
Binomial name
Eucithara pusilla
(Pease, 1860)
Synonyms[1]

Cythara pusilla Pease, 1860 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm.

(Original description) The oval shell has a white color, stained with purplish brown. The whorls are longitudinally ribbed with somewhat oblique ribs and striated transversely. The whorls are angulated at the sutures. The outer and inner lip are denticulated. The spire is short. The outer lip is thickened.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hawaii.

References

  • Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
  • "Eucithara pusilla". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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