Eucithara pusilla is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
| Eucithara pusilla | |
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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. pusilla
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucithara pusilla (Pease, 1860)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cythara pusilla Pease, 1860 (original combination) | |
Description edit
The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm.
(Original description) The oval shell has a white color, stained with purplish brown. The whorls are longitudinally ribbed with somewhat oblique ribs and striated transversely. The whorls are angulated at the sutures. The outer and inner lip are denticulated. The spire is short. The outer lip is thickened.[2]
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Hawaii.
References edit
- ^ a b WoRMS (2009). Eucithara pusilla (Pease, 1860). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433754 on 2017-05-22
- ^ Pease, William Harper. "Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands." ; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Vol. 28. 1860
- Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
External links edit
- "Eucithara pusilla". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.