Eucithara cazioti is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Eucithara cazioti | |
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| Original image of a shell of Eucithara cazioti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Eucithara |
| Species: | E. cazioti
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucithara cazioti (Preston, 1905)
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| Synonyms | |
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Mangilia (Glyphostoma) cazioti Preston, 1905 | |
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean and off Sri Lanka.
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 5 mm.
(Original description) The shell has an ovate fusiform shape. The upper whorls are in flesh colour. The last two are white. A pale brown band appears at the base of the body whorl. The suture is also discoloured by a faint band of the same colour. The shell contains 5 - 6 whorls, sculptured with spiral striae and coarse, somewhat distant transverse ribs which project above the suture. The suture is impressed. The aperture is narrow and oblique. The peristome is thickened and serrated by the spiral striae. The columella descends obliquely.[2]
References
edit- ^ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara cazioti (Preston, 1905). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433700 on 2017-05-16
- ^ Preston H.B. 1905. Descriptions of new species of marine shells from Ceylon. J. Malac. 12(1): 1-8, pis 1-2.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- "Eucithara cazioti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- 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