Citharomangelia elevata

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

Citharomangelia elevata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Citharomangelia
Species:
C. elevata
Binomial name
Citharomangelia elevata
(E. A. Smith, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cithara elevata E. A. Smith, 1884
  • Cythara elevata Melvill, 1917

Description

The length of the shell attains 15 mm, its diameter 4 mm.

The white shell has a fusiform shape with 9 whorls, of which 2–3 in the protoconch. The spire is rather elongate, occupying rather more than half the entire length of the shell. Between the ribs, above the angle, the whorls are faintly stained with a very pale dirty olive tint. It contains 10 straight axial ribs on the penultimate whorl. The aperture is slightly narrow and long. The outer lip is incrassate at the lowest rib and is slightly sinuate at the top. The siphonal canal is short and fairly narrow.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Persian Gulf.

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia elevata (E. A. Smith, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433216 on 2017-04-09
  2. E.A. Smith, 1884: 1884a. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat.Hist. {5} 14: 317–329
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