Anacithara querna

Anacithara querna
Original image of a shell of Anacithara querna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Horaiclavidae
Genus:Anacithara
Species: A. querna
Binomial name
Anacithara querna
(Melvill, 1910)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mangilia querna Melvill, 1910 (original combination)

Anacithara querna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Description

(Original description) The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm. A thickened pale brown or straw-coloured shell with few ribs, the number only extending to nine on the body whorl. Altogether it is seven-whorled, two of these being apical. The outer lip is thickened. No trace of sinus is perceptible. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is very short.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2015). Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432963 on 12 December 2016
  2. Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI
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