Anacithara querna

Anacithara querna
Original image of a shell of Anacithara querna
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Anacithara
Species:	A. querna
Binomial name
Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910)
Synonyms [1]
Mangilia quernaMelvill, 1910 (original combination)

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

Description

(Original description) The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2 mm. A thickened pale brown or straw-coloured shell with few ribs, the number only extending to nine on the body whorl. Altogether it is seven-whorled, two of these being apical. The outer lip is thickened. No trace of sinus is perceptible. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is very short. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Iran

References

1. Anacithara querna (Melvill, 1910) . 5 July 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Melvill, J.C. (1910). "Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8th ser. vol. VI This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Kilburn R.N. (1994). Turridae (s.l.) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 7. Subfamily Crassispirinae, section 2. Annals of the Natal Museum. 35: 177-228.

External links

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