Mangelia attenuata

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

Mangelia attenuata
Shells of Mangelia attenuata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. attenuata
Binomial name
Mangelia attenuata
(Montagu, 1803)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cythara attenuata (Montagu, 1803)
  • Daphnella attenuata (Montagu, 1803)
  • Mangelia striolata Risso, 1826
  • Murex aciculatus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822
  • Murex attenuatus Montagu, 1803 (basionym)
  • Pleurotoma villiersii Michaud, A.L.G., 1829
  • Pleurotoma gracile Philippi, R.A., 1836
  • Pleurotoma gracilis Scacchi, A., 1836
  • Pleurotoma payraudeauti Weinkauff, H.C., 1868
  • Pleurotoma valenciennesii Maravigna, C., 1840
  • Pleurotoma villiersii Michaud, A.L.G., 1829
  • Pleurotoma vulpina Bivona-Bernardi, Ant. & And. Bivona-Bernardi, 1838
  • Raphitoma payraudeauti Weinkauff, 1868

Description

The shell size varies between 5 mm and 13 mm.

The shell has nine whorls. Each whorl contains nine ribs, narrow, flexuous, with wider interspaces, spirally slightly and finely striate. The narrow aperture is long. The siphonal canal is short and broad. Its color is pale tawny, the upper part and middle of the body whorl often banded, or the lower half of the body whorl darker colored, sometimes there are several narrow revolving chestnut lines.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, in European waters (but not in the southern part of the North Sea) and in the Mediterranean Sea.

References
  1. Mangelia attenuata (Montagu, 1803). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 August 2011.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. (described as Daphnella attenuata)
  • Montagu. Test. Brit., p. 266, pl. 9, f. 6, 1803, 30
  • Arnaud, P.M. (1978) Revision des taxa malacologiques meditérranéens introduit par Antoine Risso. Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice, 5, 101–150.
  • Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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