Cythara paucicostata

Cythara paucicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Cythara
Species: C. paucicostata
Binomial name
Cythara paucicostata
(Pease, W.H., 1867)
Synonyms
  • Cithara paucicostata Pease W.H., 1867 (original combination)
  • Mangilia paucicostata Pease, 1867

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

This species is considered a nomen dubium.

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.

References

  1. ↑ Gastropods.com: Cythara paucicostata
  2. ↑ Pease, W. H., 1867. Description of marine gasteropodae inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology 3(3):211-222, pl. 15

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