Cingulina brazieri

Cingulina brazieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[2]

Cingulina brazieri
Drawing of a shell of Cingulina brazieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Pyramidelloidea
Family:
Pyramidellidae
Genus:
Cingulina
Species:
C. brazieri
Binomial name
Cingulina brazieri
Angas, 1877 [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Eulimella tricincta Tate, 1898
  • Terebra hedleyi Tate, 1901
  • Stylifer brazieri Angas, 1877

Description

The white shell is smooth, pellucid, and polished. Its length measures 4 mm. The teleoconch contains six whorls that are flattened just below the suture, which is finely, callously margined. The apex is styliform.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the coasts of New South Wales, Australia, mainly throughout deep areas east of the Sydney Harbour.

gollark: Thus recursion without stack overflows.
gollark: COOL languages optimize these instead of actually calling it normally and making the stack bigger.
gollark: It's where a function does another function call of some sort as the last thing in it.
gollark: ...
gollark: Does heavlang have tail call optimization‽

References
  1. Angas. Zool. Proc., t. 5, f. 5, 1877,
  2. OBIS: Cingulina brazieri, Angas, 1877; retrieved: 15 January 2012
  3. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII, p. 291; 1889 (described as Stylifer brazieri)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.