Anacithara tumida

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Anacithara tumida
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Original image of a shell of Anacithara tumida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Anacithara
Species:
A. tumida
Binomial name
Anacithara tumida
Hedley, 1922

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 5.3 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) The ovate shell is thin. Its colour is uniform white, or white with narrow ochraceous spiral lines. It contains six inflated whorls, including the protoconch, which is smooth, subdiscoidal, tilted to one side, and projecting over the next whorl. The ribs are broad and rounded, well spaced, discontinuous from one whorl to another, nine on the penultimate whorl, gradually vanishing towards the base. Both ribs and interstices overrun by fine dense spiral threads. The aperture is wide. The lip is simple. [2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland.

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References

  1. Anacithara tumida Hedley, 1922. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432970 on 2016-12-19
  2. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56