Eucithara souverbiei
Eucithara souverbiei is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Eucithara souverbiei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Eucithara |
| Species: | E. souverbiei |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucithara souverbiei (Tryon, 1884) | |
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Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm.
The shell is minutely tuberculate at the shoulder-angle, and covered by minute revolving striae. Its color is whitish, with a large dorsal brownish spot or stain.[2] It is also characterized by small, wavy spiral striae that are little protruding.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland; it was also found off the Loyalty Islands and the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
References
- WoRMS (2009). Eucithara typica (E. A. Smith, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433767 on 2017-05-22
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 288, pl. 13 fig. 5
- Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
- Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
- Hervier, J. 1898. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 165-195, 249-266, pls 7-8
- Maes Virginia Orr, The Littoral Marine Mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 119 (1967), pp. 93-217
- MNHN, Paris: syntype
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