Mangelia cingulata
Mangelia cingulata | |
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Original image of a shell of Mangelia cingulata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Mangelia |
Species: | M. cingulata |
Binomial name | |
Mangelia cingulata (H. Strebel, 1908) | |
Synonyms | |
Mangilia cingulata H. Strebel, 1908 |
Mangelia cingulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 7.7 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.
The solid, brownish shell is turriform. The apex is broken off, but 10-11 whorls appear to have existed. These are steeply angulated with a suture impressed below the lowest strongest spiral. Three such spirals are present on the whorls in increasing strength. Another four our of decreasing strength show a slightly larger interstice on the body whorl. Between the spiral ribs are fine, extensively extended ribs in the direction of growth, but they become mostly indistinct by a fibrous cuticle.[1]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Uruguay and South Georgia.