Bactrocythara labiosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Bactrocythara labiosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Bactrocythara |
| Species: | B. labiosa
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| Bactrocythara labiosa (Smith E. A., 1872)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 7 mm.
The shell is obliquely longitudinally costate, transversely sulcate. The sulci are indistinct on the ribs. The whorls are angulated above . The color of the shell is white, with a pellucid zone below the suture.[2]
Distribution
editThis species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes, West Africa, Ghana, Angola.
References
edit- Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.