Anarithma stepheni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.[1]
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| Shell of Anarithma stepheni (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mitromorphidae |
| Genus: | Anarithma |
| Species: | A. stepheni
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| Binomial name | |
| Anarithma stepheni (Melvill & Standen, 1897)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.75 mm.
(Original description) The minute, white shell is particularly beautiful. It contains six whorls , compact, clathrate, with close longitudinal riblets and revolving lirae. Just underneath the sutures the ante-penultimate and penultimate whorls are sparsely spotted with fulvous. In the body whorl the spots again occur towards the middle, but are contiguous to, and below joined with, one large dorsal effusion of the same colour. The aperture is narrow. The simple outer lip is thickened..The columella is upright.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines; French Polynesia, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
References
edit- ^ a b Anarithma stepheni (Melvill & Standen, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 April 2012.
- ^ Melvill J.C. & Standen R. (1896) Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8: 273–315
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Kilburn, R.N. (1977) "Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1." Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214
- Severns, M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
External links
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- MNHN: Anarithma stepheni
- "Anarithma stepheni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.