Notocytharella phaethusa

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Notocytharella phaethusa
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Original image of a shell of Notocytharella phaethusa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Notocytharella
Species:
N. phaethusa
Binomial name
Notocytharella phaethusa
(Dall, 1919)
Synonyms [1]
  • Cytharella phaethusaDall, 1919 (original combination)
  • Mangelia phaethusa(Dall, 1919)
  • Pyrgocythara phaethusa(Dall, 1919)
  • Tenaturris phaethusa(Dall, 1919)

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 1.25 mm.

(Original description) The minute shell has a very small turbinate brown protoconch of about 21⁄2 whorls, the latter part of which is feebly reticulately sculptured. It is followed by 31⁄2subsequent whorls;. The suture is distinct, not appressed. The whorls are moderately rounded. Their color is whitish with a pinkish brown banded base. The spiral sculpture consists of (on the first whorl one, on the second two) peripheral strong threads, on the body whorl four with much wider striated interspaces. These threads on dead specimens show paler than the general surface. On the base and the siphonal canal are about a dozen smaller close-set threads. None of the thread are nodulose where they cross the ribs. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl eight) narrow sigmoid ribs, with wider interspaces, extending from suture to siphonal canal across the body whorl. The aperture is narrow. >The outer lip is varicose, and smooth within. The inner lip is simple and not callous. The anal sulcus is large and shallow. The columella is straight. The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated.

Many of the specimens have the body whorl conspicuously striped with brown. The dead specimens are often slaty with pale spiral threads. There is also some variation in stoutness and in the strength of the posterior thread which in a few specimens is stronger than the others giving a slight shoulder to the whorl. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Baja California, Mexico.

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References

  1. 1 2 WoRMS (2009). Notocytharella phaethusa (Dall, 1919). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434497 on 2017-10-24
  2. ↑ Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920) PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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