Mangelia exasperata

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Mangelia exasperata
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Original image of a shell of Mangelia exasperata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. exasperata
Binomial name
Mangelia exasperata
H.B. Preston, 1908
Synonyms

Mangilia exasperataH.B. Preston, 1908 (original description)

Contents

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 16.25 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.

(Original description) The shell has a fusiform shape. It is pale brown, narrowly banded with a deeper shade of the same colour. The shell contains 9 whorls, angular and convex. The first two are smooth, horny, polished, the remaining seven sculptured with coarse, transverse, varicose ridges, crossed by spiral lirae between which appear numerous fine striae. The sutures are impressed. The aperture is elongate. The outer lip is varicosely thickened. [1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands

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