Eucithara isseli is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
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| Image of a shell of Eucithara isseli | |
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. isseli
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| Eucithara isseli (Nevill & Nevill, 1875)
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Distribution edit
This marine species is found in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; off Sri Lanka; the Philippines and the Loyalty Islands.
Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 12 mm.
The color of the shell is white, with two narrow, interrupted orange bands, one of which reappears on the spire.[2]
References edit
- ^ WoRMS (2009). Eucithara isseli (Nevill & Nevill, 1875). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433734 on 2017-05-16
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Nevill, G. & Nevill, H. 1875. Descriptions of nine marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. 1. Asiatic Soc. Bengal [n.s.] 44(2): 8~104, pis 7,8.
- Bouge, L.J. & Dautzenberg, P.L. 1914. Les Pleurotomides de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de ses dependances. Journal de Conchyliologie 61: 123-214
External links edit
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295
- "Eucithara isseli". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.