''Eucithara souverbiei'' is a small
sea snail
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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 ().
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mollusk
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in the family
Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
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[WoRMS (2009). Eucithara typica (E. A. Smith, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433767 on 2017-05-22]
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm.
The shell is minutely tuberculate at the shoulder-angle, and covered by minute revolving striae. Its color is whitish, with a large dorsal brownish spot or stain.
G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
/ref> It is also characterized by small, wavy spiral striae that are little protruding.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Australia and occurs off Queensland
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; it was also found off the Loyalty Islands and the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
References
* Souverbie, M. (1875) ''Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien''. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 288, pl. 13 fig. 5
* Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. ''Tropical Pacific Marine Shells''. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
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
Maes Virginia Orr, The Littoral Marine Mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 119 (1967), pp. 93-217
MNHN, Paris: syntype
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souverbiei
Gastropods described in 1884
Gastropods of Australia