Eucithara bascauda is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Original image of a shell of Eucithara bascauda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Eucithara |
| Species: | E. bascauda
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| Eucithara bascauda (Melvill & Standen, 1896)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.
The pale ochraceous shell has an ovate shape with somewhat rounded whorls. The apical whorls are simple and smooth, the rest obliquely thickly costate, with transverse acute lirae. The interstices are extremely minutely decussate. The aperture is oblong. The sinus is small, only half-hollowed out of the outer lip, and not extending across. The lip is much thickened, fimbriolate, within seven or eight denticles. The columella is straight and simple.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.
References edit
- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Eucithara bascauda (Melvill & Standen, 1896). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433690 on 2017-05-09
- ^ 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
External links edit
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