Leiocithara porcellanea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Leiocithara porcellanea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Leiocithara |
| Species: | L. porcellanea
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| Binomial name | |
| Leiocithara porcellanea Kilburn, 1992
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 9.1 mm, its diameter 3.8 mm. It is closely related to Leiocithara lischkei (E. A. Smith, 1888) from Japan, but otherwise it displays shell characters of both Leiocithara and Citharomangelia.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs off Zululand, South Africa, at depths between 75 m and 160 m.
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Leiocithara porcellanea Kilburn, 1992. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434196 on 2017-08-03
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
- "Leiocithara porcellanea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.