Eucithara duplaris

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

Eucithara duplaris
Original image of a shell and its protoconch of Eucithara duplaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Eucithara
Species:
E. duplaris
Binomial name
Eucithara duplaris
(Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms

Cythara duplaris Melvill, 1923 (original combination)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands and in the Indian Ocean off the Seychelles to northern Mozambique

Description

The length of the shell attains 16.3 mm, its diameter 6.2 mm.

(Original description) The solid shell is yellowish white. It is longitudinally irregularly but closely ribbed with incrassate ribs. The number of ribs, irregularly set out on the body whorl, is about sixteen. They are numerous likewise on the two next whorls The shell contains 6-7 whorls, at first sloping, then conspicuously and broadly angled. The whole surface is covered with fine revolving striae, which run in pairs, alternating with very narrow intervening spaces. The aperture is narrow and elongate. The outer lip is thickened and shows fifteen small shining white denticulations at the orifice. The columellar margin is extended and similarly denticulate. The wide siphonal canal is very short. The sinus is shallow and obscure.[2]

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Eucithara duplaris (Melvill, 1923). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433717 on 2017-05-17
  2. Melvill J.C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr E. R. Sykes; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
  • "Eucithara duplaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • 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
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