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Eucithara delacouriana

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Eucithara delacouriana
Apertural view of a shell of Eucithara delacouriana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Eucithara
Species:
E. delacouriana
Binomial name
Eucithara delacouriana
(Crosse, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Cithara delacouriana Crosse, 1869 (original combination)
  • Cithara matakuana E. A. Smith, 1884
  • Daphnella matakuana (E. A. Smith, 1884)
  • Eucithara matakuana (E. A. Smith, 1884)
  • Eucithara stromboides (non Reeve, 1846) Hedley, 1922
  • Mangilia (Cythara) matakuana (E. A. Smith, 1884)

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

Distribution

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This marine species if found off New Caledonia and Fiji

Description

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The length of the shell attains 10.8 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

The ribs are rounded, narrower than the interspaces, surmounting the slight shoulder-angle and attaining the suture. The revolving striae are very fine and close. The color of the shell is white, with traces of brown staining.[2]

The shell is conspicuous for robustness of form, and dorsally blotched with burnt-sienna marking.[3]

References

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  • Crosse H. 1869. Diagnoses Molluscorum Novae Caledoniae. J. Conchyliol. 17: 177-180
  • Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 286, pl. 13 fig. 4
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  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
  • Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575
  • "Eucithara delacouriana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • MNHN, Paris: Eucithara delacouriana