Mangelia diatula

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

Mangelia diatula
Shells of Mangelia diatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. diatula
Binomial name
Mangelia diatula
R.P.J. Hervier, 1897
Synonyms

Mangilia diatula R.P.J. Hervier, 1897

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

The white, elongate fusiform shell contains 6- 7 whorls of which 2 in the protoconch. These are intermediary convex with linear sutures, discreetly undulant. The shell shows many longitudinal striae and oblique ribs. It shows manyrounded ribs, 12-146 in the penultimate whorl and 10-12 on the body whorl. The body whorl measures about 3/5 of the total length. The rather narrow aperture is elongate. The outer lip is flexuously arcuate and incrassate on the outside and the inside. The round sinus lies deep under the suture. The siphonal canal is very short and wide.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Lifou, New Caledonia, and off the Philippines;

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References
  1. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Mangelia fulvicans (Strebel, 1908). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533014 on 2017-08-20
  2. 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • MNHN: Mangilia diatula
  • "Mangilia diatula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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