Eucithara isseli

Eucithara isseli is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Eucithara isseli
Image of a shell of Eucithara isseli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Eucithara
Species:
E. isseli
Binomial name
Eucithara isseli
(Nevill & Nevill, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Cythara isseli Nevill & Nevill, 1875 (original combination)
  • Mangelia (Cithara) isseli Nevill & Nevill, 1875

Distribution

This marine species is found in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; off Sri Lanka; the Philippines and the Loyalty Islands.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 12 mm.

The color of the shell is white, with two narrow, interrupted orange bands, one of which reappears on the spire.[2]

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References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Eucithara isseli (Nevill & Nevill, 1875). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433734 on 2017-05-16
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of nine marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [n.s.] 44(2): 8~104, pis 7,8.
  • Bouge, L.J. & Dautzenberg, P.L. 1914. Les Pleurotomides de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de ses dependances. Journal de Conchyliologie 61: 123-214
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
  • "Eucithara isseli". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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