Eucithara ringens

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

Eucithara ringens
Original image of a shell of Eucithara ringens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Eucithara
Species:
E. ringens
Binomial name
Eucithara ringens
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1893)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cythara ringens G. B. Sowerby III, 1893 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 6.2 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.

This short shell with an conical shape has an acuminate apex. Its color is white. The shell contains 7 angular whorls. It is delicately sculptured with 8 longitudinally arcuate ribs (12 ribs on the penultimate whorl), latticed by fine, revolving striae (about 23 on the penultimate whorl). The suture is deeply impressed. The aperture is narrow and oblong. The columella is slightly curved and contains a white callus. The thickened outer lip contains 8 denticles, the inner lip has 12 plicae.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hong Kong

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Eucithara ringens. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433756 on 2017-05-18
  2. Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1893. Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 487-492
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
  • Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
  • Kilburn R.N. 1992. Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 6. Subfamily Mangeliinae, section 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33: 461–575
  • "Eucithara ringens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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