Anacithara dulcinea

Anacithara dulcinea
Original image of a shell of Anacithara dulcinea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Anacithara
Species:	A. dulcinea
Binomial name
Anacithara dulcinea (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
Synonyms [1]
Mangilia (Daphnella) dulcineaMelvill & Standen, 1895 (original combination)

Anacithara dulcinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the ovate, dirty white shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm. A white, fusiform, very delicately-striated shell, with six swollen whorls, impressed at the sutures, obscurely longitudinally ribbed. The aperture is oblong. The outer lip is effuse. Under a lens the surface is seen to be very finely besprinkled with minute dust-like brown spots. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Lifu, the Loyalty Islands.

References

1. Anacithara dulcinea(Melvill & Standen, 1895) . 3 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Melvill & Standen (1895), Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from the Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands; Manchester Museum (University of Manchester)

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.