Citharomangelia planilabroides

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

Citharomangelia planilabroides
Drawing of a shell of Citharomangelia planilabroides
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. planilabroides
Binomial name
Citharomangelia planilabroides
(G.W. Tryon, 1884)
Synonyms[1]

Mangilia planilabroides Tryon, 1884 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 20 mm.

The shell is fusiform, smooth, narrowly, slopingly shouldered; brown with a superior white zone.[2]

The species has been renamed by G.W. Tryon as Mangilia planilabroides as it had been already described in 1846 by L.A. Reeve as Mangilia planilabrum, a name already used by him for Mangilia planilabrum described as Pleurotoma planilabrum Reeve, 1843

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines

References

  1. WoRMS (2009). Citharomangelia planilabroides (Tryon, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433218 on 2017-04-10
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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