Citharomangelia planilabroides

Citharomangelia planilabroides
Drawing of a shell of Citharomangelia planilabroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Citharomangelia
Species: C. planilabroides
Binomial name
Citharomangelia planilabroides
(G.W. Tryon, 1884)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia planilabroides Tryon, 1884 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

The shell is fusiform, smooth, narrowly, slopingly shouldered; brown with a superior white zone.[2]

The species has been renamed by G.W. Tryon as Mangilia planilabroides as it had been already described in 1846 by L.A. Reeve as Mangilia planilabrum, a name already used by him for Mangilia planilabrum described as Pleurotoma planilabrum Reeve, 1843

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines

References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia planilabroides (Tryon, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433218 on 2017-04-10
  2. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

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