''Citharomangelia pellucida'' 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 Mangeliidae.
[Gofas, S. (2015). Citharomangelia pellucida (Reeve, 1846). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=556043 on 2016-04-11]
Description
The ovate shell is attenuated at both ends, smooth, transparent, shining, longitudinally closely ribbed. The color of the shell is whitish, brown at the
base, sometimes with three narrow, interrupted bands.
[ George Washington Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VI? p. 266; 1884 (described as ''Mangilia pellucida'')]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Madagascar, the
Philippines and off
Queensland, Australia.
References
* Reeve, L.A. 1846. ''Monograph of the genus Mangelia''. pls 1–8 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
* Hedley, C. 1922. ''A revision of the Australian Turridae''. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42-56
* Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). ''Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar.'' Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
* Kilburn R.N. 1992. ''Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1.'' Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295
pellucida
''Pellucida'' is a genus of fungi in the family Hyponectriaceae
The Hyponectriaceae are a family of fungi, that was formerly in the order Xylariales
The Xylariales are an order (biology), order of fungi within the class (biology), class So ...
Gastropods described in 1846
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