Cythara paucicostata
| Cythara paucicostata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Cythara |
| Species: | C. paucicostata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cythara paucicostata (Pease, W.H., 1867) | |
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Cythara paucicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
This species is considered a nomen dubium.
Description
The length of the shell attains 7 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
{Original description) The wholly white shell has an oblong, ovate shape. The spire is rather short, turreted and acute. The whorls are angulated at the sutures, longitudinally ribbed. There are 7 ribs, very prominent, compressed, running into the sutures. The interstices are concave, finely, regularly and closely striate transversely. The sutures are deep. [2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Tahiti and Polynesia.
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