''Eucithara planilabrum'' is a small
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 ...
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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.
[WoRMS (2009). Eucithara planilabrum (Reeve, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433751 on 2017-05-21]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 17 mm.
The shell isovately oblong. Its color is reddish brown. The whorls are onvex, lineated spirally, ribbed longitudinally, ribs almost obsolete. The
aperture is oblong. The red outer
lip is flat and denticulated within. The
siphonal canal
The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is ...
is very short.
G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Timor.
References
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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planilabrum
Gastropods described in 1843