Ithycythara muricoides

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Ithycythara muricoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Ithycythara
Species:
I. muricoides
Binomial name
Ithycythara muricoides
(C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms [1]
  • Mangelia muricoidesAdams C. B., 1850

Ithycythara muricoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]

Contents

This species has become a synonym of Ithycythara lanceolata (C. B. Adams, 1850) [2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm.

(Original description) The pure white shell is fusiform and slender.. The longitudinal sculpture shows six narrow subacute prominent ribs on each whorl, which are sinuated posteriorly on the right side, and which are continuous along the spire like a species in the genus Murex .The spiral sculpture consists of very numerous microscopic spiral striae in the intercostal spaces. The apex is acute. The outlines of the spire are nearly rectilinear. The shell contains six slightly convex whorls, with a lightly impressed suture. The body whorl is gradually attenuated below into a wide siphonal canal. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Jamaica, Honduras and Barbados.

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References

  1. 1 2 Ithycythara muricoides (Adams C. B., 1850) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.
  2. ↑ Paulmier G. (2019). Le genre Ithycythara (Conoidea, Mangeliinae) aux Antilles françaises. Description de 4 nouvelles espèces. Xenophora Taxonomy. 25: 3-10. page(s): 8, figs 24-27
  3. ↑ Adams, C. B. 1850. Description of supposed new species of marine shells which inhabit Jamaica. Contributions to Conchology, 4: 56–68, 109-123 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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