''Anacithara angulosa'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
[Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Anacithara angulosa (E. A. Smith, 1872). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571788 on 2016-12-21]
Description
The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1¾ mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off
Western Africa
References
* Nolf F. & Swinnen F. (2011) ''Anacithara biscoitoi (Mollusca: Conoidea: Turridae), a new species from West Sahara (W Africa)''. Neptunea 10(2): 16–19.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
angulosa
Gastropods described in 1872
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