Eucithara souverbiei

Eucithara souverbiei
Original image of a shell of Eucithara souverbiei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Eucithara
Species:	E. souverbiei
Binomial name
Eucithara souverbiei (Tryon, 1884)
Synonyms [1]
Cithara souverbiei(Tryon, 1884) Mangilia souverbieiTryon, 1884 (original combination) Pleurotoma (Cithara) coniformisSouverbie, 1875 (invalid: junior homonym of Pleurotoma coniformisGray & G. B. Sowerby, 1839; Mangilia souverbiei is a replacement name)

Eucithara souverbiei is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm.

The shell is minutely tuberculate at the shoulder-angle, and covered by minute revolving striae. Its color is whitish, with a large dorsal brownish spot or stain. ^[2] It is also characterized by small, wavy spiral striae that are little protruding.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Queensland; it was also found off the Loyalty Islands and the Cocos-Keeling Islands.

References

1. WoRMS (2009). Eucithara typica (E. A. Smith, 1884). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433767 on 2017-05-22
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences

• Souverbie, M. (1875) Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles de l’Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 23, 282–296. page(s): 288, pl. 13 fig. 5
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
• Hervier, J. 1898. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Mollusques provenant de l'Archipel de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 45: 165-195, 249-266, pls 7-8
• Maes Virginia Orr, The Littoral Marine Mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 119 (1967), pp. 93-217
• MNHN, Paris: syntype