Eucithara cinnamomea
Appearance
Eucithara cinnamomea | |
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Image of a shell of Eucithara cinnamomea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Eucithara |
Species: | E. cinnamomea
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Binomial name | |
Eucithara cinnamomea (Hinds, 1843)
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Synonyms | |
Mangelia cinnamomea Hinds, 1843 (original combination) |
Eucithara cinnamomea is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species is found off the Strait of Malacca, the Macassar Strait and Northern New Guinea.
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shell is shouldered, plicately ribbed, transversely obsoletely striated. It is cinnamon-colored, narrowly white-banded.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara cinnamomea (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433703 on 2017-05-16
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16-21, 36-46, 255-257
External links
[edit]- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- "Eucithara cinnamomea cinnamomea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.