''Eucithara abbreviata'' is a small

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.WoRMS (2009). Eucithara abbreviata (Garrett, 1873). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433681 on 2017-04-28

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm. (Original description) The shell of this very rare species is small, abbreviate, sub-rhomboidal, solid and, white. The

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is short, pyramidal, the outline flattened, the apex subacute. It contains 7 flat whorls, the body whorl very large, ventricose, depressed beneath the suture, subangulated on the shoulder and rapidly tapering to the base. The surface is cancellated by small close longitudinal ribs and five transverse raised lines. The

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is narrow and sub-elliptical, a little more than half the length of the shell. The sinus is semicircular. The peristome is trenchant, stoutly ribbed externally, and the inner margin callous. The columella is slightly concave, smooth, thinly callous. Its most obvious character is its short subrhomboid contour, short body, and its cancellated surface.Garrett, Andrew. "Descriptions of new species of marine shells inhabiting the South Sea Islands." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1873): 209-231
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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Paumotus, Polynesia, and off the

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References

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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abbreviata ''Abbreviata'' is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Physalopteridae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most o ...

Gastropods described in 1873