Brachycythara nanodes

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

Brachycythara nanodes
Original image of a shell of Brachycythara nanodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Brachycythara
Species:
B. nanodes
Binomial name
Brachycythara nanodes
(Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms

Mangelia nanodes J.C. Melvill, 1923

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, the diameter 3 mm.

(Original description) The solid shell has an abbreviately fusiform shape. Its color is yellowish white. It contains 6 whorls of which two small, globular belong to the protoconch. The remainder are ventricose, much impressed suturally. The spire shows longitudinal incrassate smooth ribs, the interstices crossed by coarse infrequent spiral lines. The whorls are very tumid, the spiral lines at the interstices coarse. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is thickened. The sinus is very obscure. The columellar margin is inclined to obliquity. The siphonal canal is extremely short.[2]

Distribution

B. nanodes can be found off the coast of Cuba.[3]

References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Brachycythara nanodes (Melvill, 1923). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532453 on 2017-04-05
  2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923); Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)]
  3. Tunnell, John W., Jr., Felder, Darryl L., & Earle, Sylvia A., eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 1: Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 666.
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