Eucithara duplaris

Eucithara duplaris
	Original image of a shell and its protoconch of Eucithara duplaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Eucithara
Species:	E. duplaris
Binomial name
	Eucithara duplaris; (Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms
	Cythara duplaris Melvill, 1923 (original combination)

Eucithara duplaris is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands and in the Indian Ocean off the Seychelles to northern Mozambique

Description

The length of the shell attains 16.3 mm, its diameter 6.2 mm.

(Original description) The solid shell is yellowish white. It is longitudinally irregularly but closely ribbed with incrassate ribs. The number of ribs, irregularly set out on the body whorl, is about sixteen. They are numerous likewise on the two next whorls The shell contains 6-7 whorls, at first sloping, then conspicuously and broadly angled. The whole surface is covered with fine revolving striae, which run in pairs, alternating with very narrow intervening spaces. The aperture is narrow and elongate. The outer lip is thickened and shows fifteen small shining white denticulations at the orifice. The columellar margin is extended and similarly denticulate. The wide siphonal canal is very short. The sinus is shallow and obscure.^[2]

References

^ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara duplaris (Melvill, 1923). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433717 on 2017-05-17
^ Melvill J.C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr E. R. Sykes; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)

External links

[WoRMS-1] WoRMS (2009). Eucithara duplaris (Melvill, 1923). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433717 on 2017-05-17

[2] Melvill J.C. 1923. Descriptions of twenty-one species of Turridae (Pleurotomidae) from various localities in the collection of Mr E. R. Sykes; Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923)

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