Eucithara cinnamomea
Eucithara cinnamomea is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Eucithara cinnamomea | |
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Image of a shell of Eucithara cinnamomea | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Clade: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Mangeliidae |
Genus: | Eucithara |
Species: | E. cinnamomea |
Binomial name | |
Eucithara cinnamomea (Hinds, 1843) | |
Synonyms | |
Mangelia cinnamomea Hinds, 1843 (original combination) |
Distribution
This marine species is found off the Strait of Malacca, the Macassar Strait and Northern New Guinea.
Description
The length of the shell attains 13 mm.
The shell is shouldered, plicately ribbed, transversely obsoletely striated. It is cinnamon-colored, narrowly white-banded.[2]
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References
- WoRMS (2009). Eucithara cinnamomea (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433703 on 2017-05-16
- G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16-21, 36-46, 255-257
External links
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- "Eucithara cinnamomea cinnamomea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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